Gunmen kill 13 Niger police in attack near Mali border

Attack happened close to where four US soldiers were killed in ambush on 4 October that highlighted US counter-terrorism mission Gunmen on pick-up trucks and motorcycles coming from Mali killed 13 gendarmes and wounded five more in an attack on their base in western Niger, security sources said on Saturday. The village is a few dozen kilometres from where militants killed four US soldiers in an ambush on 4 October that has thrown a spotlight on a US counter-terrorism mission in Niger, a country ...