Nearly 200 troops, 28 trucks and two dozen armored vehicles left the Ouallam military base, which has been handed to Niger, a junta spokesman, Col. Maj. Amadou Abdramane, said Sunday.

Niger's junta said late on Thursday that 400 French soldiers based in the southwestern town of Ouallam would be the first to pack up in a withdrawal that is dealing a further blow to France's ...

Hama Dawa, a Malian refugee in Ouallam, Niger, has transformed his tailoring skills into a thriving workshop that trains refugees, internally displaced persons, and local youth. His story is a strong ...

OUALLAM, NIGER. Scrawled onto a cement gravestone in the village of Tchombangou is the date when the calm of the remote community in southwest Niger was shattered: Friday, Nov. 22, 2019.

Operational Detachment Alpha Team 3212, also known as "Team Ouallam" for their base in Niger, had just left the village of Tongo Tongo near the Mali border on the morning of Oct. 4 in a convoy of ...

Hama Dawa, a Malian refugee in Ouallam, Niger, has transformed his tailoring skills into a thriving workshop that trains refugees, internally displaced persons, and local youth. His story is a ...

A freshly paved road splits the town of Ouallam into two worlds. On the eastern side of the street, tattered, makeshift shelters are scattered alongside temporary latrines, tents serving as ...

Staff Sgt. Bryan C. Black, Staff Sgt. Jeremiah W. Johnson, Sgt. La David Johnson and Staff Sgt. Dustin M. Wright, all soldiers with the 3rd Special Forces Group, were killed in Niger following an ...

A U.S Mine Resistant Ambush Protected All-Terrain Vehicle hit an explosive device on Saturday while entering a firing range near Ouallam, Niger, a spokesman for U.S. Africa Command said. “There ...

OUALLAM, Niger - The Indiana National Guard and Nigerien armed forces trained together during the multinational exercise Flintlock 18 during 12 days in April. The commander of Special Operations ...

OUALLAM, Niger—The front lines in the war between the West and militant Islamists have shifted to Africa, from Somalia on the continent’s eastern tip to the West African Sahel, a semidesert ...

In the dusty plains outside Ouallam, a town some 100 kilometres north of Niger’s capital Niamey, verdant rows of vegetables sprout from the soil in neat plots. Adding further contrast to the parched ...