Pentagon discloses new firefight in Niger

The Hill: U.S. troops engaged in an undisclosed firefight with Islamic State militants in Niger two months after American troops were killed in the African nation, the U.S. military acknowledged on Wednesday.

Pentagon spokeswoman Maj. Sheryll Klinkel said in a statement to CNN that "during a mission in the Lake Chad Basin region the morning of Dec. 6, a combined force of Nigerien and US military members came under fire from a formation of violent extremists."

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