{"id":374643,"date":"2025-12-28T19:50:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T19:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/374643\/"},"modified":"2025-12-28T19:50:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T19:50:14","slug":"us-strikes-on-nigeria-and-syria-are-consistent-with-policy-to-combat-is-republican-says-us-military","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/374643\/","title":{"rendered":"US strikes on Nigeria and Syria are \u2018consistent\u2019 with policy to combat IS, Republican says | US military"},"content":{"rendered":"

A senior Republican<\/a> on the US House armed services committee has said that the country\u2019s recent military strikes<\/a> in Nigeria and Syria are consistent with American foreign policy to combat Islamic extremism that have existed across Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s two presidential terms.<\/p>\n

Mike Turner, an Ohio congressman, said on Sunday that the strikes are a \u201ccontinuation of our conflict with [the Islamic State]\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s been, you know, around the world, Iraq, Syria. You\u2019re seeing it now in Nigeria<\/a>,\u201d Turner said.<\/p>\n

Turner denied that the strikes represent a different second-term approach to military force. With respect to the Islamic State<\/a> (IS), he told ABC\u2019s This Week, US policy is \u201cvery consistent\u201d in defeating it whether in Iraq, Syria or \u201chere in Nigeria\u201d.<\/p>\n

Turner said the US is \u201cseeing that [IS] around the world has not been defeated but will continue to be a target and something that, with our allies, we\u2019re going to have to continue to respond to or they\u2019re going to continue to be a threat\u201d.<\/p>\n

Mike Turner speaks after a briefing at the US Capitol on 15 February 2024 in Washington DC. Photograph: Kevin Dietsch\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

His comments came three days after the Pentagon launched<\/a> a cruise missile strike on terrorist camps in north-western Nigeria during what Trump later called<\/a> a \u201cChristmas present\u201d for IS militants in Nigeria.<\/p>\n

The president later amplified his comments on WABC<\/a> radio in New York, calling IS \u201cbutchers\u201d who \u201cgot a very bad Christmas present\u201d. Trump, referring to the persecution of Christians in the region, said he \u201ctold Nigeria, and I told the people around Nigeria, that if you do it, you\u2019re going to get hit.\u201d<\/p>\n

US defense secretary Pete Hegseth<\/a> said on X that Trump had made it clear that \u201cthe killing of innocent Christians in Nigeria (and elsewhere) must end\u201d. He added that the defense department, which the Trump administration has rebranded<\/a> the war department, \u201cis always ready, so [IS] found out tonight \u2013 on Christmas. More to come.\u201d<\/p>\n

The consistency of the US approach, Turner said, applied to the its position on Russia\u2019s war in Ukraine. Turner said the Russian president Vladimir Putin\u2019s Christmas Day strikes in Ukraine and overnight on Saturday<\/a> were a reminder \u201cthat we can\u2019t be for this\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen we address the issue of whose side we\u2019re on, you can\u2019t be America first and be pro-Russia,\u201d Turner remarked. \u201cRussia is a self-declared adversary of the United States. They are mercilessly killing Ukrainians and trying to take Ukrainian land. So, the president has rightly said we need to end this war.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A senior Republican on the US House armed services committee has said that the country\u2019s recent military strikes…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":374644,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-374643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374643\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}