President Donald Trump announced late Thursday that the United States military has launched “powerful and deadly” airstrikes against ISIS militants in northwest Nigeria.
The operation, conducted on Christmas Day, targeted extremist cells in Sokoto State also known as the ISIS-Sahel Province (ISSP) camps in Sokoto State. President Trump stated the strikes were a direct response to the “vicious killing” of Christians in the region. U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) confirmed the strikes were carried out at the direction of the President and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, reporting that “multiple ISIS terrorists” were killed.
In a post on Truth Social, President Trump said, “I have previously warned these Terrorists that if they did not stop the slaughtering of Christians, there would be hell to pay, and tonight, there was.” He added that the U.S. would not allow “Radical Islamic Terrorism to prosper.”