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Jihadists kill 71 soldiers in mass attack - Niger military

Nigerian commandos simulate a raid on a militant camp during the U.S. sponsored Flintlock exercises in Ouallam, Niger.

Islamist militants killed 71 soldiers in an attack on a remote military camp in Niger near the border with Mali, an army spokesman said on Wednesday, in the deadliest raid against the Nigerien military in living memory.

Jihadists with links to Islamic State and al Qaeda have mounted increasingly lethal attacks across West Africa’s Sahel region this year despite the commitment of thousands of regional and foreign troops to counter them.

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