PNN – The President of the United States announced an attack on positions of the terrorist group ISIS in Nigeria.
According to the report of Pakistan News Network from Al Jazeera, U.S. President Donald Trump announced that last night, on his order, positions of the terrorist group ISIS in northwest Nigeria were targeted in an attack.
Trump claimed that the U.S. Department of Defense carried out several highly precise attacks against the terrorist group ISIS in northwest Nigeria.
The U.S. President added: ISIS in Nigeria, with unprecedented violence, targets and massacres innocent Christians.
He continued: I had previously warned these terrorists about killing Christians, and they paid the price.
Trump said: If the massacre of Christians continues, more terrorists will be killed.
He added: The attack was carried out in Sokoto State and resulted in the killing of a number of ISIS terrorist group members.
Reuters, quoting a U.S. official, reported that the U.S. military strike in Nigeria was conducted at the request of Nigerian officials.
The terrorist group ISIS’s West Africa Province (ISWAP) began its activities in northeastern Nigeria in 2015 and is considered a branch of Boko Haram. This group, through extensive attacks against security forces and civilians, especially in Borno, Yobe, and Adamawa states, has caused the death and displacement of thousands of people. Nigerian forces and neighboring countries, with U.S. air support, have conducted several operations against the bases and leaders of this terrorist group in recent years.