Inside The US Strike In Sokoto That Shook Nigerians At Home And Abroad—And How It Exposes Nigeria’s Security Contradictions A Deep Dive Into the US-Nigeria Military Operation and the Complexity It Revealed On Christmas Day 2025, President Trump announced that the United States military had executed “significant and lethal” strikes against ISIS targets in Sokoto State, northwest Nigeria. The operation marked the first direct U.S. kinetic military action on Nigerian soil, fulfilling Trump’s November threat to intervene “guns-a-blazing” if Nigeria continued failing to protect Christians from Islamist violence.​​ Within hours, Nigeria’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed the operation was conducted

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