Pentagon Keeps Troops in Niger Despite Putsch, Maintains Contact with Some Military Leaders The Pentagon said Tuesday it has suspended security cooperation with Niger due to the political unrest in the West African...
How New Jersey Guardsmen Thwarted One of the Largest Somali Terror Attacks in Decades It was fall 2019, and there was a near certainty that the American-run Baledogle Military Airfield in the middle of Somalia...
Lawmakers Demand Answers on US Involvement in Deadly 2017 Nigerian Airstrike A group of House Democrats wants answers following reports that the U.S. military may have helped Nigerian forces with a 2017...
An American Nun Held Hostage in West Africa Since April Has Been Rescued Suellen Tennyson, an 83-year-old nun from Louisiana, was captured by "armed gunmen" on April 4 in Yalgo, Burkina Faso...
Troops Reprimanded After Deadly Al-Shabaab Attack on Kenya Base The U.S. base and an adjacent airfield were more vulnerable due to a culture of complacency among forces deployed there, the...
US Airman Dies During Deployment to Niger Staff Sgt. Dennis F. Melton was stationed at Nigerien Air Base 101 in Niamey, Niger, with the 768th Expeditionary Air Base...
1,000 National Guard Soldiers to Deploy to Africa as Mid East Wars Wind Down It is unclear if the 1,000 Guardsmen is an increase in the Pentagon’s force in Africa, or if those troops are replacing...
Oil Tanker Explodes in Sierra Leone, Killing at Least 92 Sierra Leone’s National Disaster Management Agency is working tirelessly in the wake of the emergency.
Mali's Timbuktu Fears Jihadis as France Reduces Troops Timbuktu Mayor Aboubacrine Cissé does not hide his unease with France's decision to end its Operation Barkhane.
Soldiers Detain Guinea's President, Dissolve Government The country’s constitution was declared invalid in an announcement read aloud on state television by a military leader.
Musk, Ramaswamy Proposal to Slash Spending Could Include VA Medical Services Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy confirmed that they plan to target "unauthorized" federal spending, a category that includes...
Coast Guard Set to Receive New Icebreaker by Year's End, Bolstering US Presence in Arctic The need for ships with icebreaking capabilities is growing as China and Russia increase their presence in the Arctic...
Marine Corps F-35C Was Used in Combat for First Time to Strike Houthis, Military Confirms Traveling at speeds of 1,200 mph, the F-35C can carry Joint Direct Attack Munitions, or JDAMs, air-to-air missiles and other...
Military Diversity Is Not the Problem "The main reason for concern about the U.S. military and its performance has to do with the variety of U.S. commitments and...
MacDill Airman Gets 5 Years Of Probation in 'Undead Apes' Blockchain Fraud U.S. District Judge William Jung sentenced Devin Rhoden to five years’ probation, a reflection of Rhoden’s substantial...