{"id":211389,"date":"2025-12-26T06:11:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T06:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/211389\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T06:11:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T06:11:10","slug":"us-carries-out-airstrikes-against-islamic-state-terrorist-scum-in-nigeria-trump-says-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/211389\/","title":{"rendered":"US carries out airstrikes against Islamic State \u2018terrorist scum\u2019 in Nigeria, Trump says \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/donald-trump\/\">Donald Trump<\/a> said the US has carried out air strikes against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/islamic-state\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/islamic-state\/\">Islamic State <\/a>militants in northwest <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/nigeria\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria <\/a>on Thursday, claiming the militant group had been targeting Christians in the region.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">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 class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cI have previously warned these Terrorists that if they did not stop the slaughtering of Christians, there would be hell to pay, and tonight, there was. The Department of War executed numerous perfect strikes, as only the United States is capable of doing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">No other details of the strikes were immediately available.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Trump has previously said that he would launch a \u201cguns-a-blazing\u201d US military intervention in Nigeria, claiming that the country\u2019s government has been inadequate in its efforts to prevent attacks on Christians by Islamist groups who have kidnapped and killed Christians there repeatedly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Nigeria is officially a secular country but its population is almost evenly divided between Muslims (53 per cent) and Christians (45 per cent). Violence against Christians has drawn significant international attention, especially among the religious right in America, and it has been often framed as religious persecution.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">However, most analysts argue the situation is more complex and has long roots in the region\u2019s history. In some parts of the country clashes between itinerant Muslim herders and predominantly Christian farming communities are rooted in competition over land and water.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Priests and pastors have increasingly been kidnapped for ransom, but some analysts say this may be a trend driven by criminal incentives rather than religious discrimination. \u2013 Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Donald Trump said the US has carried out air strikes against Islamic State militants in northwest Nigeria on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":211390,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[969,42,43,21913,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-211389","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-donald-trump","9":"tag-headlines","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-nigeria","12":"tag-top-news","13":"tag-top-stories","14":"tag-topnews","15":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}