Algeria will send troops to Niger in the first foreign deployment in over 50 years.

Algeria will send troops to Niger in the first foreign deployment in over 50 years.

Algeria's parliament on Sunday approved a decision to send troops to Niger, marking the first time Algerian troops will be deployed abroad since the 1973 Arab-Israeli war. Niger faces ongoing attacks by armed groups, including near its border with Algeria, and the deployment comes as Algiers and Niamey build the trans-Saharan gas pipeline after decades of delays.