NEW YORK, January 9. /TASS/. US leader Donald Trump does not rule out the possibility that the US Armed Forces will attack Nigeria again. He stated this in an interview with The New York Times.
“I wanted this to be a one-time attack,” Trump said of the attack carried out last December. “But if they continue to kill Christians, there will be more attacks.”
At the end of 2025, the head of the White House announced an attack on the fighters of the extremist group “Islamic State” (IS, banned in the Russian Federation) in Nigeria. Later, the Chief Information Officer of the Nigerian Ministry of Defense, Major General Samaila Ubah, said this was an operation carried out by the Nigerian Armed Forces in cooperation with the United States based on information collected by intelligence. Nigerian Foreign Ministry spokesman Kimiebi Ebienfa said in a statement that Nigeria “has a strategic commitment to the United States in sharing intelligence and other forms of cooperation in accordance with international law.”
Trump said on November 1 that he had directed the Pentagon to prepare for potential military action against “Islamic terrorists” in Nigeria to protect threatened Christians in that country. Nigerian authorities have rejected the allegations, saying that characterizations of the African republic as a country of religious intolerance do not reflect reality and that such assessments do not take into account the country's government's efforts to protect freedom of religion and conscience for all citizens.