In January 2013, a senior Nigerien official told Reuters that Bisa Williams, the then- United States Ambassador to Niger, requested permission to establish a drone base in a meeting with Nigerien President Mahamadou Issoufou. The ambush remains the largest loss of American lives in combat in Africa since the Battle of Mogadishu in 1993. The DoD inquiry, completed in 2018, found that the 11-member US special forces team was not prepared for the mission, and identified other flaws in planning. The ambush also prompted congressional inquiries, and an investigation by the US Department of Defense (DoD). The ambush sparked political debate over the presence of US forces in Africa and brought attention to previously under-reported US military activities in the region.

In the day preceding the ambush, the Nigerien and US soldiers conducted a mission attempting to locate and capture or kill Doundou Chefou, a commander in the ISGS. During the ambush, four Nigeriens, four US soldiers, and at least 21 ISGS militants were killed, and eight Nigeriens and two US soldiers including the team commander were wounded. The Tongo Tongo ambush or the Niger ambush occurred on 4 October 2017, when armed militants from the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara (ISGS) attacked Nigerien and US soldiers outside the village of Tongo Tongo, Niger, while they were returning to base after a stop in the village. Chimère special operations team, 1st RPIMa ġ0 soldiers, 1 intelligence contractor 2 technicals, 1 unarmed Toyota Land Cruiser ģ ground Quick Reaction Force elements of at least 100 soldiers, 1 helicopterġ00+ militants, ~12 technicals, ~20 motorcycles Ĥ soldiers killed, 1 interpreter killed, 8 wounded.Operational Detachment Alpha (ODA) 3212.Green Beret senior Officers and team leaders disciplined for the outcome of the ambush.US congressional inquiry and DoD investigation.Turkey sees a small chance its military could face U.S.stealth bombers in Guam appear to be readying for a tactical nuclear strike on North Korea The North Korean defector who escaped after being shot had reportedly been in a drunk-driving accident.ISIS claimed responsibility for deadly attack on a children's charity and it shows their resilience in Afghanistan.The soldiers were reportedly engaged in a joint mission with Nigerien forces when they were attacked. Bryan Black, Jeremiah Johnson, and Dustin Wright and Sgt. In addition to that inquiry, AFRICOM is currently investigating the ambush that led to the deaths of 3rd Special Forces Group soldiers - Staff Sgts. Africa Command (AFRICOM) said in a statement that it was “reviewing the post and determining the veracity of the tweet and the assertions that there is an associated video.” “The video shows one side of the attack, the American dead, some photos were shot by an American soldier, but ISIS took them after the photographer was killed,” the Twitter user wrote, according to the Military Times. Related: The Pentagon Is Woefully Unprepared For The Global War On Terror’s African Front » The Twitter user who posted the images claimed that he received the footage of the ambush from an ISIS-affiliated group operating out of Mali, which borders Niger. The images, which surfaced on Twitter, were followed up with two posts of the alleged incident that appeared to be composed from video footage from a helmet camera, according to the Military Times. military is investigating a set of images that claim to show a dead service member targeted in an October ambush that killed four soldiers in Tongo Tongo, Niger.

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