Editing Niger Armed Forces (section)

== Foreign missions ==
In 1991, Niger sent a 400-man military contingent to join the American-led allied forces against [[Iraq]] during the [[Gulf War]]. Niger provides a battalion of peace-keeping forces to the UN Mission in [[Ivory Coast]]. As of 2003, the FAN had troops deployed in the following foreign missions:<ref>[https://pastel.diplomatie.gouv.fr/editorial/mae/freres-armes/241/1313.html  Dossier Niger: Les forces armées nigériennes (FAN)] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120214124724/https://pastel.diplomatie.gouv.fr/editorial/mae/freres-armes/241/1313.html |date=2012-02-14 }}, Ministère des Affaires étrangères (France), 2003.</ref>
*[[ECOMOG]]: [[Liberia]], [[Guinée-Bissau]];
*[[African Union]]: [[Burundi]] (MIOB), [[Comoros]] (MIOC), [[Mali]] (AFISMA);
*[[United Nations]]: [[Rwanda]] (MINURCA), [[Democratic Republic of Congo]] (MONUC); [[Mali]] (MINUSMA)
[[Image:Niger Panhard AML.JPG|thumb|right|Nigerien [[Panhard AML]] light armored cars with 90mm guns stand in a holding area during Operation Desert Shield.]]