Tongo Tongo

18 Daesh fighters killed in joint operation with US in Niger

The June 8-18 operation took place in the northern border region of Tongo Tongo targeting a gang of Daesh terrorists implicated in an ambush on May 14, in which 28 Nigerien soldiers were killed
In October 2017, Daesh claimed responsibility for a raid which killed four US soldiers and five Nigerien troops in the same region

By AFP · 20 June 2019