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The article informs that the Washington Army has withdrawal the promotion of Colonel Bradley D. Moses, senior Special Forces officer involved in the fatal 2017, ambush in Niger, as the attack resulted in the deaths of Americans and exposed the US military's shortcomings in western Africa.

The article reports that Senate Armed Services Committee has blocked the promotion of Special Forces officers involved in fatal October 4, 2017 and mentions that the attack resulted in American deaths and exposed military shortcomings of U.S. in western Africa.

The article focuses on silver star medal to Dustin Wright, staff sergeant in U.S. armed force by the U.S. army that recognizes singular acts of valor and heroism, after death of Wright during the investigations of Nigerien soldiers who were ambushed by Islamic State fighters in Niger.

The article focuses on a roadside blast on June 8, 2019 that disabled a U.S. all-terrain vehicle in Niger that prompted increased concerns about the growing threat of improvised explosive devises in the country.

The article discusses the U.S. military's identification of Doundoun Cheffou, Tinka ag Almouner and Al Mahmoud ag Baye as militants of the terrorist group ISIS (Islamic State in Iraq and Syria) in the Greater Sahara who were involved in the Niger ambush of U.S. Green Berets in October 2017.

The article offers information on an investigation into an attack on the U.S. Army Special Forces in Niger which left four soldiers dead and twowounded, and presents the views of Lieutenant General Kenneth F. McKenzie Jr., the director of the military's Joint Staff, on the same.

The article reflects on U.S. Sergeant La David T. Johnson who died serving his role as a U.S. Army mechanic in the 3rd Special Forces Group as part of a mission to train African troops in the fight against terrorism in Niger.

The article reports on the ambush of members of the U.S. special forces by Nigerian fighters loyal to the terrorist group, Islamic State in the desert of Niger on October 4, 2017. Topics discussed include the deaths of several soldiers in the ambush triggering a debate over how the families of fallen U.S. soldiers should be treated by their commander in chief and a series of intelligence failures and strategic miscalculations that resulted to an ambush.