US condemns Niger bombings

Nigerien President Mahamadou Issoufou told on Saturday that the suicide bombers responsible for deadly twin attacks on a military base and a French uranium mine in Niger came from Libya. Niger President Mahamadou Issoufou told FRANCE 24 on Saturday ...

The following Security Council press statement was issued today by Council President Kodjo Menan (Togo): The members of the Security Council condemned in the strongest terms the terrorist attacks that occurred in Agadez and Arlit, Niger, on 23 May, ...

New York, May 25 (IBNS): The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) Friday condemned in the strongest terms the two terrorist attacks that occurred on Thursday in Niger, and underlined the need to bring the perpetrators to justice. The suicide ...

An al Qaeda-linked group that carried out the raid on the In Amenas gas plant in Algeria in January has claimed to have participated in Thursday's attacks in Niger. A statement posted on the internet on Friday was signed by Khalid Abu al-Abbas, ...

Niamey, Niger (CNN) -- An Islamist militant group has claimed responsibility for Thursday's deadly attacks on an army barracks and a uranium mine in Niger, saying they were responses to Niger's cooperation with France in a "war against Sharia," CNN ...

Niamey - Islamist suicide bombers struck an army barracks and a French-run uranium mine in Niger on Thursday, officials said, killing 21 people and wounding dozens more in attacks that showed militant violence spreading in West Africa. The ...

Hours after denying that jihadists in the city of Agadez had taken several soldiers hostage, Niger's minister of defense corrected the record in an interview with , saying that in fact two hostages had been found and have now been released. Defense ...

NIAMEY, Niger, May 24 (UPI) -- Thursday's attacks, which killed 19 people and five bombers, were claimed by the Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa, or MUJAO, which is allied with al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb. But a posting on jihadist ...

PARIS, May 24 (Xinhua) -- French special forces joined an operation in Niger after two suicide bombs hit a military base and a plant run by French nuclear giant Areva in northern part of the country on Thursday, Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian ...