{"id":4585,"date":"2025-12-26T08:36:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T08:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/2025\/12\/26\/live-nigeria-confirms-us-strikes-on-isil-targets-in-its-northwest\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T08:36:00","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T08:36:00","slug":"live-nigeria-confirms-us-strikes-on-isil-targets-in-its-northwest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/2025\/12\/26\/live-nigeria-confirms-us-strikes-on-isil-targets-in-its-northwest\/","title":{"rendered":"LIVE: Nigeria confirms US strikes on ISIL targets in its northwest"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"root\"><main><\/p>\n<div role=\"main\">\n<header>\n<div>\n<p><em>Nigeria says US claims that Christians face persecution \u200cdo not represent a complex security situation and ignore efforts by Nigerian authorities to safeguard religious freedom.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"wysiwyg\">\n<ul>\n<li>The United \u200dStates \u200dhas carried out an air strike against\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/tag\/isil-isis\/\">ISIL (ISIS)<\/a> fighters in northwest Nigeria, US \u2060President Donald Trump \u200bsays, claiming that the armed group had \u201c\u200ctargeted and viciously\u201d killed \u201cprimarily, innocent Christians, at \u2060levels not seen for many years, and even Centuries!\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Nigeria\u2019s government has confirmed the attacks but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2025\/11\/4\/nigeria-pushes-back-on-trumps-claims-over-christian-killings\">dismisses Trump\u2019s assertions<\/a>, saying armed groups target both Muslim and Christian communities in the country, and US claims that Christians face persecution \u200c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2025\/11\/2\/nigeria-welcomes-us-assistance-to-fight-terrorism-after-trumps-threats\">do not represent a complex security situation<\/a>\u00a0and ignore efforts by Nigerian authorities to safeguard religious freedom.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/main><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria says US claims that Christians face persecution \u200cdo not represent a complex security situation and ignore efforts by Nigerian authorities to safeguard religious freedom. The United \u200dStates \u200dhas carried out an air strike against\u00a0ISIL (ISIS) fighters in northwest Nigeria, US \u2060President Donald Trump \u200bsays, claiming that the armed group had \u201c\u200ctargeted and viciously\u201d killed &#8230; <a title=\"LIVE: Nigeria confirms US strikes on ISIL targets in its northwest\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/2025\/12\/26\/live-nigeria-confirms-us-strikes-on-isil-targets-in-its-northwest\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about LIVE: Nigeria confirms US strikes on ISIL targets in its northwest\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4586,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}