Nigeria: Who Was the Targeted Islamic State Group Leader and Why Was He Targeted by the US?
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Nigeria and the United States have conducted new operations against the Islamic State group in northeastern Nigeria, where a jihadist insurgency has been taking place for seventeen years. In a statement issued this Monday, May 18, Africom – the United States Command for Africa – confirms that it has carried out new air strikes on Sunday, May 17, 24 hours after eliminating a senior ISIS official in the country. For several months, military cooper…
Trump and Hegseth Send Warning After Strike on Terrorists in Nigeria
(Washington, DC) – President Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth are sending a blunt message after U.S. action reportedly targeted Islamist terror fighters accused of attacking Christians in Nigeria. The administration is framing the operation as a clear warning that groups targeting religious communities will be hunted down. The issue of violence against Christians in Nigeria has been a growing concern for religious freedom advocates, who …
"It's at Least a Symbolic Success": in Nigeria, the United States Hits the Islamic State in the Lead
DECRYPTAGE - The terrorist organization's number two was killed in a joint operation between the two armies.
Nigeria and the United States carried out further attacks against Islamic State (IS) jihadists in the north-east of that West African country, the U.S. Army said on Monday. On Saturday, both countries announced that they had killed Abu Bilal al Minuki, an IS leader described as the second in command of the group worldwide, who had been subject to U.S. sanctions since 2023. Northern Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country, faces violence from jih…
Nigeria: Who was the targeted Islamic State group leader and why was he targeted by the US?
On May 16, a senior IS group figure was killed in a strike led by Nigerian and US forces as part of a joint operation to target jihadists of the group in the northeast of Nigeria. But although Abu-Bilal al-Minuki was a prominent figure of the IS group, he wasn't the second-in-command of IS group worldwide, as US President Donald Trump claimed at the time of his killing. FRANCE 24's Wassim Nasr tells us more about who he was, and what his death m…
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