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FIRST ON FOX: U.S. troops trying to combat al Qaeda and ISIS jihadist fighters in Niger and some other West African countries in the terror-ridden Sahel region are reportedly ‘completely blind’, following what a former senior State Department official has told Fox News Digital was a policy proposal developed by the Biden administration.

A U.S. military source who spoke exclusively to Fox News Digital, claimed that now the Pentagon, when trying to react to serious incidents such as the Oct. 21 kidnapping of a U.S. citizen, is faced with ‘a black hole’.

The U.S. had two airbases in Niger until September of last year. American surveillance drones operated from the bases, using high-tech cameras to peer through thick forest

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