Image copyright AFP Image caption The widow of one of the troops killed later became embroiled in a row with US President Donald Trump

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. After a cut in the video, the US soldiers are seen around another vehicle, with one soldier driving and the other two walking beside while seemingly firing at their attackers. The deaths became a major political row in the US when the widow of one of the soldiers, Army Sgt La David Johnson, said President Donald Trump had made her cry during a condolence phone call by suggesting her husband "knew what he signed up for". Though many Americans may not have been aware that the U.S. had a military presence in Niger, Army staff sergeants Bryan Black, Jeremiah Johnson, La David Johnson and Dustin Wright were killed in the fight, along with militants and five Nigerian soldiers. We don’t know how many other incidents like Tongo Tongo might have taken place in which no one was killed.Five hundred kilometers to the west of Tongo Tongo is the Burkina Faso capital of Ouagadougou, the site of a gun battle with terrorists last Friday in which four terrorists and several soldiers were killed. American troops in Niger were targeting terrorist before ambush

“USAFRICOM is aware of a post on Twitter purporting to show a U.S. soldier from the Oct. 4 ambush in Tongo Tongo, Niger,” it said in a statement at the time.
ISIL releases purported footage of the October 2017 attack on American special forces in Tongo Tongo, Niger.