US Africa Command said on Tuesday that its forces launched airstrikes in northeastern Nigeria on May 18, marking the third day in a row that the US conducted strikes in the West African nation. AFRICOM said the latest strikes were launched in coordination with the...
The US has claimed more airstrikes in Nigeria as the Trump administration continues to escalate US military involvement in the country. US Africa Command said in a press release that it conducted "additional kinetic strikes against ISIS in Northeastern Nigeria" on May...
President Trump claimed in a post on Truth Social on Saturday that a US-Nigerian military operation that day killed a senior ISIS leader, a joint attack that comes as the Nigerian government has been accused of killing hundreds of civilians in recent airstrikes....
The Pentagon is sending 200 troops to Nigeria in the coming weeks to train the country's military to fight Islamist militants, US officials told media outlets on Tuesday, as President Trump continues to deepen US involvement in the country. A US official told The New...
The head of US Africa Command said on Tuesday that the US has deployed a "small team" of troops to Nigeria, comments that come more than a month after the US launched its first missile strikes in the country on Christmas Day. It's unclear when the US troops were sent...
2025 saw a major increase in US airstrikes due to President Trump loosening the rules of engagement for military commanders and launching new interventions in the Middle East, Africa, and Latin America. According to a report from the Armed Conflict Location and Event...
The top Catholic official in the Nigerian state that was targeted by US missiles on Christmas has come out against the US strikes, according to a report from OSV News. "Violence cannot defeat violence," said Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah, the head of the Diocese of...
Two villages in Nigeria that were hit by US missiles as part of the first US strikes in Nigeria launched on Christmas Day were not the intended target, according to a statement from the Nigerian government. On Friday, Nigeria's Information Minister Mohammed Idris said...
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) will hold another emergency summit on the situation in Niger this Thursday after the Niger junta ignored the bloc's deadline to reinstate President Mohamed Bazoum. After the military took power in Niger, ECOWAS...
Nigeria's Senate has warned against military intervention in neighboring Niger after Nigerian President Bola Tinubu requested backing for such an action against Niger's new military junta. Nigeria currently holds the rotating presidency of the Economic Community of...
