The U.S. military has hundreds of troops stationed at a major airbase in northern Niger that deploys flights over the vast Sahel region south of the Sahara Desert where jihadi groups linked to al-Qaida and the Islamic State group operate. The United States scrambled on Sunday to assess the future of its counterterrorism operations in the Sahel after Niger’s junta said it was ending its yearslong military cooperation with Washington following a visit by top U.S. officials. Niger had been seen as one of the last nations in the restive region that Western nations could partner with to beat back growing jihadi insurgencies. What does this mean for US presence in sahel region ?
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