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JACQUEVILLE, Ivory Coast (AP) — While patrolling a mock village to train in fighting...

JACQUEVILLE, Ivory Coast (AP) — While patrolling a mock village to train in fighting...

At a training site in Ivory Coast, a Ghanaian officer says he has watched neighboring countries be overrun by jihadis for nearly 10 years, wondering if his country will be next

This year’s exercises take place as France announces it will be pulling its troops from Mali, where thousands of its soldiers have been fighting Islamic extremists since 2013 when they pushed al-Qaida linked fighters from strongholds in the north

JACQUEVILLE, Ivory Coast (AP) — While patrolling a mock village to train in fighting extremists, a Ghanaian soldier wondered how he would cope if one day the drill became real. The 24-year-old special forces officer, who has never experienced war, is p...

JACQUEVILLE, Ivory Coast (AP) — While patrolling a mock village to train in fighting...

JACQUEVILLE, Ivory Coast (AP) — While patrolling a mock village to train in fighting...

JACQUEVILLE, Ivory Coast (AP) — While patrolling a mock village to train in fighting...

JACQUEVILLE, Ivory Coast (AP) -- While patrolling a mock village to train in fighting extremists, a Ghanaian soldier wondered how he would cope if one day

At a training site in Ivory Coast, a Ghanaian officer says he has watched neighboring countries be overrun by jihadis for nearly 10 years, wondering if his country will be next. The soldier is among 200 troops from four nations being trained as part of the annual U.S. military-led counterterrorism training known as Flintlock. This year, it takes place as France announces it will be pulling its troops from Mali. Extremists have made their way to the coastlines before, and there is a reported pres...