On Christmas Day, the United States launched airstrikes against Lakurawa, an Islamist vigilante group operating in a largely Muslim area of northwest Nigeria. Then, in February, the Pentagon announced it would be sending about 200 US troops to help train Nigerian soldiers to fight insurgents.
For months, President Donald Trump has accused the Nigerian government of failing to protect Christians from Islamist terrorist attacks, threatening to end all aid to the African nation if the “Christian genocide” didn’t end.
In a post on the Trump-owned social media platform, Truth Social, the president stated that the December airstrikes were directed at “ISIS terrorist scum” who he said have been “targeting and viciously killing, primarily, innocent Christians.”
