“These locations were being used as assembly and staging grounds by foreign ISIS elements infiltrating Nigeria from the Sahel region … to plan and execute large-scale terrorist attacks within Nigerian territory,” Muhammed Idris, Nigeria’s Minister of Information and National Orientation, said in a statement. Sixteen precision munitions were launched from a platform in the Gulf of Guinea against two major ISIS enclaves in the Bauni Forest of the Sokoto State on the country’s northern border, “successfully neutralizing the targeted ISIS elements,” Idris said. The Department of War shared unclassified footage of a missile being launched from the deck of a military vessel after Trump announced the operation, as village residents nearby described glowing bright red skies and intense heat from the attacks.
Author: Gabrielle Fahmy
Published at: 2025-12-27 19:57:45
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