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by Zion Chukwuma
December 26th 2025.

President Donald Trump has said the US launched a "powerful and deadly strike" against the Islamic State (IS) group in north-western Nigeria.


The US leader described IS as " terrorist scum", accusing the group of "targeting and viciously killing, primarily, innocent Christians".

Trump said the US military "executed numerous perfect strikes", while the US Africa Command (Africom) later reported that Thursday's attack was carried out in co-ordination with Nigeria in the Sokoto state.

Nigerian Foreign Minister Yusuf Maitama Tuggar told the BBC it was a "joint operation" targeting "terrorists", and it "has nothing to do with a particular religion".

Without naming IS specifically, Tuggar said the operation had been planned "for quite some time" and had used intelligence information provided by the Nigerian sideHe did not say at the time which killings he was referring to, but claims of a genocide against Nigeria's Christians have been circulating in recent months in some right-wing US circles.

Meanwhile, US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Thursday that he was "grateful for Nigerian government support & cooperation

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