New Delhi. US President Donald Trump said the United States has launched airstrikes against ISIL (ISIS) fighters in north-west Nigeria. The special thing was that Trump chose Christmas day to give this information.

Trump said in a post on his Truth social platform, “Tonight, at my direction as Commander in Chief, the United States launched a powerful and deadly attack against ISIS terrorists in northwest Nigeria. He said that IS terrorists primarily targeted innocent Christians and killed them with a brutality not seen in many years and centuries. I had already warned these terrorists that if they did not stop the massacre of Christians, they would There will be consequences for this and that is what happened tonight.

The US military’s Africa Command (AFRICOM) said in a post on social media platform X that the airstrike was carried out at the request of Nigerian authorities and killed ‘several terrorists’. US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth wrote that I am grateful for the support and cooperation of the Nigerian government. He warned that more was to come. AFRICOM said the attack took place in Soboto State, which is part of Nigeria’s Sokoto state.