OFFA, Nigeria — When President Donald Trump announced U.S. airstrikes in Nigeria on Christmas night, he declared that his newly rebranded War Department had conducted “numerous perfect strikes” ...

Nigeria have booked their AFCON 2025 quarter-final place after thumping Mozambique in the last 16. Ademola Lookman finished into the top corner from Akor Adams' square pass to open the scoring in the ...

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President Donald Trump is taking action against Islamic State militants in northwest Nigeria, following through on previous threats and signing off on airstrikes targeting the group on Thursday. While ...

The US carried out strikes on Islamic State-linked targets in north-west Nigeria over Christmas, in what both Washington and Abuja describe as a joint operation. The basics: when, where, and what each ...

Ebenezer Obadare is the Douglas Dillon senior fellow for Africa studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. President Donald Trump announced on Christmas Day that the United States had struck Islamic ...

LAGOS, Dec 27 (Reuters) - U.S.-backed air strikes in Nigeria hit two Islamic State-linked camps in the Bauni forest of Sokoto State, targeting foreign fighters infiltrating from the Sahel, the ...

RICHMOND, Texas – Airstrikes carried out in northwest Nigeria are drawing strong reactions from Nigerian Americans in the Houston area, where one of the largest Nigerian populations outside of Africa ...

The United States launched airstrikes in Nigeria against Islamic State militants on Christmas Day after President Donald Trump threatened in November to go into the country "guns-a-blazing" over what ...

The U.S. launched strikes against ISIS militants in Nigeria on Thursday, a Christmas Day attack amid tensions between the West African nation and the U.S. “Tonight, at my direction as Commander in ...

The United States carried out a strike against Islamic State militants in northwest Nigeria at the request of Nigeria's government, President Donald Trump and the U.S. military said on Thursday, ...

Nigeria said it shared intelligence with the U.S. ahead of Christmas night airstrikes on ISIS targets in the country. The Nigerian Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed on Friday that it was "engaged ...