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President Donald Trump has ordered a strike on Islamic State (ISIS) terrorists in Nigeria, who Trump has accused of persecuting Christians in the nation. 

“Tonight, at my direction as Commander in Chief, the United States launched a highly effective and deadly strike against ISIS Terrorist Scum in Northwest Nigeria, who have been targeting and viciously killing, primarily, innocent Christians, at levels not seen 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.”

“The Department of War executed quite a few good strikes, as only the United States is succesful of doing. Under my management, our Country is not going to permit Radical Islamic violent extremism to prosper. May God Bless our Military, and MERRY CHRISTMAS to all, including the lifeless Terrorists, of which there will likely be many more if their slaughter of Christians continues.”

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth also took to social media to tote the assault. “The President was clear last month: the killing of innocent Christians in Nigeria (and elsewhere) must end. The Department of War is always ready, so ISIS found out tonight — on Christmas. More to come… Grateful for Nigerian government support & cooperation. Merry Christmas!”

The president’s post didn’t embody data about how the strike was carried out and what results it had and the White House didn’t immediately present additional particulars.

Last month, Trump said he’d ordered the Pentagon to start planning for potential army motion in Nigeria following the claims of Christian persecution. The State Department then announced in current weeks that it could limit visas for Nigerians and their relations concerned in mass killings and violence against Christians in the West African nation.

The U.S. just lately designated Nigera a “country of particular concern” under the International Religious Freedom Act.

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Christians in Nigeria have been focused by a selection of teams, including Islamist militant teams such as Boko Haram, and the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP). Violence also sometimes comes from radicalized parts within the primarily Muslim Fulani herding communities.

In Mali and Burkina Faso, ISIS associates have attracted vital recruitment from the Fulani group, often by exploiting local grievances against state authorities and rival ethnic teams. The Fulani people are a semi-nomadic, cattle herding, Islamic, ethnic group, who populate a number of West African nations.

In 2014, Fulani Militants had been named the fourth most deadly terrorist group in the world. Number one through three embody ISIS, the Taliban, and Boko Haram (whom they’ve since overtaken).

Earlier today, a bomb exploded during prayers at a mosque in Nigeria’s northeastern metropolis of Maiduguri on Wednesday night time, killing 5 people in what police described as a probably suicide assault. Police said that 35 people had been also injured in the assault.

Nahum Daso, spokesperson for police command in the encircling state of Borno, said in a assertion that fragments of a suspected suicide vest had been discovered at the positioning.

The bombing is the latest in a collection of assaults in Nigeria’s troubled northern area, where the nation is battling a number of armed teams, including Boko Haram and its splinter group, Islamic State West Africa Province.

Several thousand people have been killed, with thousands and thousands displaced from their houses since 2009, according to the United Nations.

No group has claimed accountability for the assault, but the use of suicide bombers has been closely attributed to Boko Haram, the Islamic militant group that has beforehand claimed accountability for many such assaults across the northeastern area.