NIAMEY, Jan 9 (Reuters) - Suspected Islamist militants
killed 25 soldiers and wounded six others in an attack on an
army outpost in west Niger near its border with Mali on
Thursday, the government said in a statement.
It was not immediately clear who was responsible for the
attack, in which 63 assailants were also killed, the statement
said. But it comes amid a concerted campaign by Islamist groups
connected to al Qaeda and Islamic State against the Nigerien
army on its western frontier.