Joe Dunford clarified that, while an ISIS-affiliated group is suspected in the attack, the Pentagon doesn’t believe the ambushers were foreign fighters.
The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on Monday pledged a thorough, transparent investigation into the deaths of four U.S. soldiers in Niger, saying they had been attacked on patrol by a group “affiliated” with the Islamic State.
“We owe you more information and, more importantly, we owe the families of the fallen more information, and that’s what the investigation is designed to identify,” Marine Gen. Joe Dunford told reporters at the Pentagon.
The investigation, he said, is being led by a general officer out of the U.S. Africa Command and will include sending personnel back to the battlefield to gather evidence.
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