{"id":29888,"date":"2024-08-05T16:17:03","date_gmt":"2024-08-05T13:17:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=29888"},"modified":"2024-08-05T16:17:03","modified_gmt":"2024-08-05T13:17:03","slug":"pentagon-us-military-completes-withdrawal-from-final-base-in-niger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/05\/pentagon-us-military-completes-withdrawal-from-final-base-in-niger\/","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon: US Military Completes Withdrawal from Final Base in Niger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sudan Events &#8211; Agencies<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The US military has withdrawn its forces from its final base in Niger, the Pentagon said Monday, more than a year after military coup leaders in the African country told them to leave.<br \/>\nThe \u201cwithdrawal of US forces and assets from Air Base 201 in Agadez is complete,\u201d the Pentagon said in a joint statement with Niger\u2019s defence ministry.<br \/>\n\u201cThis effort&#8230; will continue between US and Nigerien armed forces over the coming weeks to ensure the full withdrawal is complete as planned,\u201d it continued.<br \/>\nIt did not give any detail on what assets the US may still have left to withdraw in the country.<br \/>\nSome 200 soldiers had been at the Agadez drone base, in the north of the country.<br \/>\nUS troops were part of an international effort to suppress extremist forces that regularly strike across the region.<br \/>\nBut the Niger military leaders who seized power in a coup a year ago in March told US and French forces to quit the country.<br \/>\n\u201cOver the past decade, US troops have trained Niger\u2019s forces and supported partner-led counterterrorism missions against Islamic State and al Qaeda in the region,\u201d the statement continued.<br \/>\n\u201cThe effective cooperation and communication between the US and Nigerien armed forces ensured that this turnover was finished ahead of schedule and without complications,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sudan Events &#8211; Agencies The US military has withdrawn its forces from its final base in Niger, the Pentagon said Monday, more than a year after military coup leaders in the African country told them to leave. The \u201cwithdrawal of US forces and assets from Air Base 201 in Agadez is complete,\u201d the Pentagon said &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29889,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29888"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29890,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29888\/revisions\/29890"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}