https://www.npr.org/2025/12/25/g-s1-103704/nigeria-isis-islamic-statePresident Trump announced late Thursday that the U.S. had launched a "deadly strike" against Islamic State fighters in northwest Nigeria, who he said had been killing Christians in the area.In a Christmas night post on Truth Social, Trump said the strike was directed at "ISIS Terrorist Scum in Northwest Nigeria, who have been targeting and viciously killing, primarily, innocent Christians, at levels not see for many years, and even Centuries!""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 said, adding that U.S. forces had "executed numerous perfect strikes.""Under my leadership, our Country will not allow Radical Islamic Terrorism to prosper," the president wrote. "May God Bless our Military, and MERRY CHRISTMAS to all, including the dead Terrorists, of which there will be many more if their slaughter of Christians continues."The announcement follows multiple U.S. strikes last week against ISIS targets in Syria in response to what the U.S. Central Command described as a targeted killing of two U.S. soldiers and an interpreter by an ISIS gunman there.Trump has accused Nigeria of failing to stop the persecution of Christians in the country and last month he said he ordered the Pentagon to draw up plans for possible military action against Nigeria and warned the U.S. would suspend aid to the West African country.
Nigeria is roughly evenly divided between Christians and Muslims. The Nigerian government says attacks by militant groups are less about religion than where those groups are located.Last month, Nigeria said it welcomed U.S. help in fighting insurgents but that its territorial integrity must be respected, according to Reuters.U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) said in a statement it had "conducted a strike at the request of Nigerian authorities in Sokoto State killing multiple ISIS terrorists."In a post on X, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said: "The @DeptofWaris always ready, so ISIS found out tonight — on Christmas. More to come… Grateful for Nigerian government support & cooperation."So far, Nigerian officials have not formally commented on the reported strikes.
Outside of Lagos Nigeria isn't even really one country in more than name. There are 500+ different languages spoken by as many different culture groups, each of which stakes a claim to a different region. Religion is the least of the things dividing them. I also don't think Americans would recognize Nigerian Christians as being of the same faith for the most part if they knew anything about them.
He'll finally get the real Nobel prize for this. Kissinger got it after carpet bombing Laos on Christmas.
Guess I shouldn't have sold Trump that penis enlarging powder through my online email business.
>>1469157Keep throwing endless amounts of resources towards foreign conflicts in foreign countries that do nothing for us. That's sure to make America great again.
>>1469275B-b-but the Christians!
>>1469157Apparently at least one of the places they bombed was a completely innocent village who woke up on christmas to someone almost blowing up their local medical center. No one died but there was also no ISIS there either so it seems that at least one of these bombings was just on random locations for fun.
>>1469157Keep your Gai Slop off /news/.
>>1469157>Reports coming in that the missiles mostly hit farmlands and the outskirts of random villages>No casualties ISIS or otherwise>Several warheads failed to detonate on impact meaning that if there are any ISIS in those areas all we did was arm them with no explosivesL M A O
When he stops bombing them, he can claim this as another war he ended. No one has ended more wars than Trump. It hardly matters that he had to start a couple of them.Ask Kobe: you gotta toss a few bricks to pad your stats.
