The Department of Defense announced on Monday it has withdrawn from its last military base in the African country of Niger.
The DOD said the “withdrawal of U.S. forces and assets from Air Base 201 in Agadez is complete” in a joint statement with Niger’s defense ministry. The United States’s complete withdrawal of forces and assets is expected to take place “over the coming weeks,” the statement noted, though it did not provide details on what the U.S. still has in the country.
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