The President Donald Trump said on Thursday that US forces had carried out “numerous” fatal attacks against the Islamic State (IS) in northwestern Nigeria and promised that there will be more if this organization continues to kill Christians in that country.
“Tonight, under my leadership as Commander-in-Chief, The United States launched a powerful and deadly attack against the terrorist scum of ISIS in the northwest of Nigeria, who are mercilessly attacking and killing, above all, innocent Christians, on a scale not seen in many years and even centuries!”, the president published on his social network.
“I had previously warned these terrorists that If they didn’t stop the killing of Christians, they would pay dearly.and that’s how it was tonight,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform.
The Republican added that the “The War Department carried out numerous perfect attacks” on Christmas Day against Islamic State targets.
“Under my leadership Our country will not allow radical Islamic terrorism to thrive. “May God bless our armed forces and I wish you all a MERRY CHRISTMAS, including the dead terrorists, of which there will be many more if the massacre of Christians continues,” he concluded.
The president’s post did not provide any information about how the attack was carried out or what its impact was, and the White House provided no further details.
.@POTUS “Tonight, at my direction as Commander-in-Chief, the United States launched a powerful and deadly attack against the terrorist scum of ISIS in northwestern Nigeria, who have targeted and brutally killed primarily innocent Christians on a scale not seen in many years, and…” pic.twitter.com/ct7rUW128t
– Department of War 🇺🇸 (@DeptofWar) December 26, 2025
The US military’s Africa Command said in a post on X that it had carried out an attack “at the request of the Nigerian authorities… who killed several ISIS terrorists”when that armed group’s acronym is used.
The head of the Pentagon, Pete Hegseth He praised his department’s willingness to act in Nigeria in X and said he was “grateful for the support and cooperation of the Nigerian government.”
The attacks are the first by U.S. forces in Nigeria under the Trump administration, which unexpectedly criticized the African country in October and November by claiming that Christians there were under attack “existential threat” is synonymous with “genocide”.
A report by the International Society for Civil Liberties and the Rule of Law (Intersociety) shows that in the first 220 days of 2025 Islamic terrorists have murdered around 7,087 Christians and another 7,800 kidnapped.
Last month, Trump said he had directed the Pentagon to plan possible military action in Nigeria after reports of persecution of Christians. The Foreign Ministry, for its part, has announced this in recent weeks would restrict visas for Nigerians and their families involved in mass killings and violence against Christians in the African country.
The United States recently designated Nigeria as a “Country of Special Concern” under the International Religious Freedom Act.
With 220 million inhabitants Nigeria is almost equally divided between Christians and Muslims. The country has been mired in an insecurity crisis for years due to attacks by the extremist group Boko Haram, which seeks to impose its radical version of Islamic law and also attacks Muslims who it says are “not sufficiently committed to their faith.”
Conflicts in Nigeria have different causes: In addition to religiously motivated attacks, there are conflicts between farmers and herdsmen over natural resources, ethnic conflicts, communal rivalries and secession movements.
Although Christians have been the target of numerous attacks, the majority of victims belong to Muslim communities in the north of the country, according to analysts and international organizations.
The presence of American security in Africa has been reducedwhere military formations have shrunk or disbanded. This would probably require US forces to be withdrawn from other parts of the world Military intervention in Nigeria.
But Trump is keeping up the pressure as Nigeria faces a series of violent attacks on schools and churches that experts and residents say target both Christians and Muslims.
With agency information
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