The Islamic State (IS) group has published a video purporting to show an ambush in Niger in which four US soldiers were killed last October.<\/p>\n
It is not clear why the release of the video – on an IS outlet on messaging app Telegram – was delayed until now.<\/p>\n
The video consists mainly of raw footage, including images apparently filmed using a helmet camera belonging to one of the soldiers.<\/p>\n
The video seems to suggest that the attack was carried out by IS militants.<\/p>\n
It begins with still images showing an alleged pledge of allegiance to IS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi by members of the al-Qaeda-linked, Sahel-based group Jamaat Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM).<\/p>\n
The alleged pledge was reported last month by a number of analysts but it had not been promoted by IS outlets on Telegram.<\/p>\n
The deaths later caused controversy\u00a0when the widow of one of the soldiers said President Donald Trump had made her cry during a condolence phone call by suggesting her husband “knew what he signed up for”.<\/p>\n
The video shows several armed militants walking and running in a desert area apparently heading for the ambush, reports BBC Monitoring.<\/p>\n
It then shows footage that appears to have been filmed by one of the US soldiers. At one point the footage shows US soldiers seemingly exchanging fire with their assailants.<\/p>\n
One soldier is then shown apparently dead.<\/p>\n
Fighting continues until the other soldiers are killed, including apparently the one who was filming.<\/p>\n
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Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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