Niger’s armed forces have been bringing in reinforcements to the capital to prepare for a potential military intervention, a military source told CNN, just hours after the military junta running the ...

Gunmen attacked the main airport in Niger's capital early Thursday, killing 11 soldiers and two civilians in an exchange of fire that also left 22 of the attackers dead, authorities said. Niger’s ...

West Africa's al Qaeda affiliate claimed responsibility on Thursday ⁠for ⁠an attack on the airport and military airbase ⁠in Niger's capital that the government said killed 11 members of the security ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The abduction reportedly took place not far from Niger's presidential palace in the capital, Niamey [File: AFP] A US missionary ...

Johannesburg — Multiple security sources in the West African nation of Niger told CBS News on Wednesday that an American national was kidnapped from his home in the capital Niamey on Tuesday night.

NIAMEY, June 18 (Reuters) - Explosions and sustained gunfire were heard early on Thursday morning at the airport and military airbase in Niger's capital Niamey, witnesses said, in what a security ...

A burst of heavy gunfire and explosions erupted early Thursday near the international airport in Niger's capital Niamey before halting within hours, residents told AFP. Videos filmed by residents of ...

Niger has been fighting a militant Islamist insurgency for a decade and in January suspected jihadists attacked the same ...