Tuesday, 18 January 2022 (YJC)_ The Foreign Minister of the Islamic Republic of Iran, in a telephone conversation with the Foreign Minister of Niger, stressed the balanced foreign policy and the will of the 13th government to strengthen and develop relations with Africa.
Monday, 03 May 2021_Sixteen Niger soldiers have been killed and another is missing after an ambush against a patrol in the Tahoua region near the Mali border, local officials said Sunday.
Tehran 22 February _A joint operation by Nigerien and French troops in southwest Niger killed 120 “terrorists” and seized bomb-making equipment and vehicles, the country's defense ministry said Friday.
TEHRAN, May 28 - Violence in northwest Nigeria has forced around 20,000 refugees to flee to neighboring Niger since April, the United Nations refugee agency said on Tuesday.
TEHRAN, Jan 3 - Troops and air strikes have killed more than 280 Boko Haram militants since the Niger government started an operation against the group last week, the defense ministry said.
TEHRAN, December 30 - Some 15 suspected militants have been killed near the Niger-Mali border by a joint Franco-Nigerien task force, the French military high command said.
TEHRAN, November 22 - Armed men killed eight people on Thursday in a late night attack on French drilling company Foraco's water well site in southeastern Niger, Foraco said.
TEHRAN, November 22 - Armed men killed eight people on Thursday in a late night attack on French drilling company Foraco's water well site in southeastern Niger, Foraco said.
TEHRAN, July 22 -The Nigerien army says it has killed at least 10 members of the Takfiri Boko Haram terrorist group, who attacked one of its military positions in the southeast of the African country.
TEHRAN, June 05 - Three female suicide bombers blew up a mosque overnight in Niger's southeastern city of Diffa, killing 10 worshippers who had gathered after the breaking their Ramadan fast, an army spokesman said, Reuters reported.
TEHRAN, March 26 - At least five civilians were killed and several others wounded in an attack by suspected Boko Haram militants in southeast Niger, near the border with Nigeria, according to local sources.
Several thousand people protested Sunday in Niamey against the 2018 finance law which they consider detrimental to the working class, according to an AFP journalist.
TEHRAN, December 3 - The US military has received permission from the government of Niger to begin flying armed drones in the country from the nation’s capital of Niamey, according to a report.
TEHRAN, November 12 -The body of one of four US Special Forces troops killed during an ambush by suspected militants in Niger last month was found with his arms tied and a huge wound at the back of his head, two local witnesses have said, suggested that he may have been executed after being captured.
TEHRAN, October 27 - Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad-Javad Zarif and His Niger’s counterpart Ibrahim Yacouba inaugurated the two country’s joint trade center in the capital city of Niamey.
TEHRAN, October 27 - Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad-Javad Zarif and Niger’s President Mahamadou Issoufou discussed issues of mutual interests as well as key regional and international developments.
The administration of US President Donald Trump is reportedly speeding up plans to use armed drone to attack militants in Niger, in the wake of a deadly ambush that killed four American troops in the African country.