US launches lethal Christmas Day strikes on terrorists in Nigeria, kills a number of ISIS fighters
United States President Donald Trump on Christmas Day stated that United States’ forces performed a number of lethal strikes in opposition to Islamic State terrorists in Northwestern Nigeria, hitting targets and and vowing extra assaults if the alleged genocidal assaults by the criminals in opposition to Christian inhabitants within the area didn’t cease.
Trump said this on his Fact Social platform, clarifying that the Division of Warfare carried out quite a few precision strikes that hit the terrorists’ dens in Nigeria.
President Trump wrote, “Tonight, at my course as Commander in Chief, the US launched a robust and lethal strike in opposition to ISIS Terrorist Scum in Northwest Nigeria, who’ve been focusing on and viciously killing, primarily, harmless Christians, at ranges not seen for a few years, and even centuries!
“I’ve beforehand warned these terrorists that if they didn’t cease the slaughtering of Christians, there could be hell to pay, and tonight, there was.
“The Division of Warfare executed quite a few good strikes, as solely the US is able to doing.
“Beneath my management, our nation won’t enable radical Islamic terrorism to prosper.
“Might God bless our army, and MERRY CHRISTMAS to all, together with the useless terrorists, of which there will likely be many extra if their slaughter of Christians continues.”
Nevertheless the Defence Secretary, Pete Hegseth, in a separate publish on X (previously Twitter), stated he was “grateful for Nigerian authorities assist and cooperation.”
He wrote, “The President was clear final month: the killing of harmless Christians in Nigeria (and elsewhere) should finish.
“The @DeptofWar is at all times prepared, so ISIS discovered tonight — on Christmas.
“Grateful for Nigerian authorities assist & cooperation. Merry Christmas!”
US Africa Command stated in an X publish that it performed a strike, which killed a number of ISIS terrorists in Sokoto State.
“On the course of the President of the US and the Secretary of Warfare, and in coordination with Nigerian authorities, U.S. Africa Command performed strikes in opposition to ISIS terrorists in Nigeria on Dec. 25, 2025, in Sokoto State,” the publish learn.
The airstrikes come in the future after a bomb ripped via a mosque in Nigeria’s northeastern metropolis of Maiduguri, killing 5 folks and injuring dozens, in a suspected suicide assault.
In keeping with The New York Submit, the African nation has been suffering from violence carried out by a number of armed militant {groups}, together with Boko Haram and Islamic State of West Africa Province.