{"id":39303,"date":"2025-12-27T20:15:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-27T20:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=39303"},"modified":"2025-12-27T20:15:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T20:15:17","slug":"do-donald-trumps-strikes-in-nigeria-serve-any-purpose-armed-groups-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=39303","title":{"rendered":"Do Donald Trump\u2019s strikes in Nigeria serve any purpose? | Armed Groups News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The US president says air strikes are against ISIL, claiming the group targets Christians.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMore to come\u201d: Those are the words of United States Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth after his country carried out a wave of air strikes against ISIL (ISIS) in northwestern Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>Hegseth said the aim is to stop the group\u2019s killing of what he called \u201cinnocent Christians\u201d.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"more-on__heading\">Recommended Stories <\/h2>\n<p><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">list of 4 items<\/span><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">end of list<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Back in November, President Donald Trump warned the US would take action against the group if the Nigerian government continued to allow what he claimed was the targeting of Christians.<\/p>\n<p>Many say Trump was pressured by his right-wing Christian base in the US to carry out the recent attacks in Nigeria. But what could be the fallout on the African country with a highly complex religious makeup?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Presenter:<\/strong> Adrian Finighan<\/p>\n<p><strong>Guests:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Malik Samuel \u2013 Senior researcher at Good Governance Africa<\/p>\n<p>Ebenezer Obadare \u2013 Senior fellow for Africa studies at the Council on Foreign Relations<\/p>\n<p>David Otto \u2013 Deputy director of counterterrorism training at the International Academy for the Fight Against Terrorism<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Published On 27 Dec 2025<\/span><span aria-hidden=\"true\">27 Dec 2025<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Click here to share on social media<\/p>\n<p>share2<\/p>\n<p class=\"rich-share__social-text\">Share<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US president says air strikes are against ISIL, claiming the group targets Christians. \u201cMore to come\u201d: Those are the words of United States Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth after his country carried out a wave of air strikes against ISIL (ISIS) in northwestern Nigeria. Hegseth said the aim is to stop the group\u2019s killing of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39304,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[3538,964,1860,150,954,11470,7770,85,71],"class_list":{"0":"post-39303","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-politics","8":"tag-armed","9":"tag-donald","10":"tag-groups","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-nigeria","13":"tag-purpose","14":"tag-serve","15":"tag-strikes","16":"tag-trumps"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}