The Pentagon says the United States will pull the majority of its troops from Chad and Niger as it works to restore key agreements governing what role there might be there for the American military and its counterterrorism operations.

A top U.S. military official says there's been no final decision on whether or not all U.S. troops will leave Niger and Chad.

U.S. officials said that they will begin to withdraw troops from Niger but there is no timeline.

France has completed the withdrawal of its troops from Niger after they were asked to leave by the country’s new military rulers, ending years of on-the-ground support.

Families in Niger say they are struggling after economic sanctions imposed in response to a military coup three months ago.

The French military says it's begun withdrawing from Niger following the July coup when mutinous soldiers toppled the country’s democratically elected president.

The top Air Force commander for Europe and Africa says the U.S. military has resumed counterterrorism missions in Niger, flying drones and other aircraft out of Niger air bases more than a month after a coup temporarily halted all those activities there.

Niger’s new military leaders have accused France of amassing forces for a possible military intervention in the country following the coup in July.

Niger’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs says the French ambassador has been asked to leave the country.

Insurgents killed 17 soldiers and wounded nearly 24 in the first major attack in half a year against the army in Niger, where Western powers fear a coup by the elite presidential guard last month is weakening a rare ally against jihadi violence in West Africa’s Sahel.

One week after a deadline passed for mutinous soldiers in Niger to reinstate the country’s ousted president or face military intervention, the junta has not acquiesced.

A local activist in Niger with ties to the military regime says the only way to avoid conflict in the country between mutinous soldiers that ousted the president and regional nations who are threatening an invasion to reinstate him, is to recognize the new regime as the ones in power.

Tensions are escalating between Niger’s new military regime and the West African regional bloc that has ordered troops deployed to restore Niger’s flailing democracy.

An adviser says Niger's ousted president is running out of food and experiencing increasingly dire conditions, two weeks after he was ousted in a military coup and put under house arrest.

Niger’s military junta has refused the latest diplomatic attempt to get the ousted president freed and reinstalled.

Nearly two weeks have passed since the coup in Niger, and the two men making competing claims to power have gone quiet in recent days.

A senior U_S_ diplomat says coup leaders in Niger refused to allow her to meet with the country’s democratically elected president, whom she described as under “virtual house arrest.”.

The deadline has arrived for Niger’s military junta to reinstate the country’s ousted president, but the West Africa regional bloc that has threatened a military intervention faces prominent appeals to pursue more peaceful means.

An analyst says Niger’s new military junta has asked for help from the Russian mercenary group Wagner as the deadline nears for it to release the country’s ousted president or face possible military intervention by the West African regional bloc.

Regional mediation efforts to reverse the coup in Niger collapsed as soon as they started.

As several European countries evacuate Niger following a coup, the United States seems intent on staying.

Not everyone is hostile to last week's coup in Niger.

The French Foreign Ministry says France is planning an imminent evacuation of people seeking to leave Niger after the coup last week in the former French colony.

Thousands of people backing the coup in Niger marched through the streets of the capital denouncing the country’s former colonial power, waving Russian flags and lighting a door at the French Embassy on fire Sunday before the army broke up the crowd.

Mutinous soldiers in Niger have declared the general who led a coup as the head of state.

Niger’s president defiantly declared that democracy would prevail, a day after mutinous soldiers detained him and announced they had seized power in a coup because of the West African country’s deteriorating security situation.