{"id":38632,"date":"2025-12-26T00:09:25","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T00:09:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/us-carries-out-airstrikes-against-islamic-state-terrorist-scum-in-nigeria-trump-says\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T00:09:25","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T00:09:25","slug":"us-carries-out-airstrikes-against-islamic-state-terrorist-scum-in-nigeria-trump-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/us-carries-out-airstrikes-against-islamic-state-terrorist-scum-in-nigeria-trump-says\/","title":{"rendered":"US carries out airstrikes against Islamic State \u2018terrorist scum\u2019 in Nigeria, Trump says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President claims strikes targeted militants in country\u2019s north-west, accusing group of attacking Christian communities<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump said the US has carried out airstrikes against Islamic State militants in north-west Nigeria on Thursday, claiming the militant group had been targeting Christians in the region.<\/p>\n<p>The president said in a post on Truth Social: \u201cTonight, at my direction as Commander in Chief, the United States launched a powerful 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!<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/dec\/25\/us-carries-out-airstrikes-against-islamic-state-terrorist-scum-in-nigeria-trump-says\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President claims strikes targeted militants in country\u2019s north-west, accusing group of attacking Christian communities Donald Trump said the US has carried out airstrikes against Islamic State militants in north-west Nigeria on Thursday, claiming the militant group had been targeting Christians in the region. The president said in a post on Truth Social: \u201cTonight, at my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38633,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fast-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-25 16:25:04","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}