Trump announces an attack against Islamic State positions in Nigeria
According to the US president, the movement has been "powerful and deadly."
BarcelonaDonald Trump announced on Thursday that the United States had launched a "powerful and deadly" attack against Islamic State camps in Nigeria. According to the US president, the terrorist group had recently been attacking "innocent Christians." "Tonight, under my direction as commander-in-chief, the United States launched a powerful and deadly attack against the terrorist scum of the Islamic State in Northwest Nigeria," Trump posted on his social media network, Truth Social. In the same message, Trump claimed that he had previously warned them that "if they did not stop the slaughter of Christians, all hell would break loose." The bombings, as described by Trump, were "numerous perfect strikes, the kind only the United States is capable of." Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth expressed support for today's attacks, which involved the launch of a dozen Tomahawk missiles from a US Navy ship deployed in the Gulf of Guinea.
According to the United States Africa Command (AFRICOM), attacks on the camps have resulted in "multiple" casualties in the Sokoto region, an area located near the border with Niger. "U.S. Africa Command is working with regional and Nigerian partners to enhance cooperation on counterterrorism and efforts against threats to innocent lives," said General Dagvin Anderson, AFRICOM commander, in a statement. In recent months, the U.S. government has sought to neutralize ISIS operations, which directly target the Christian community in Nigeria, Africa's most populous country, and ordered the Pentagon to prepare plans to carry out these attacks should Trump order them. A report by Intersociety reveals that in the first 220 days of 2025, terrorists murdered 7,087 Christians and kidnapped another 7,800.