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Trump Launches Lightning Strikes on ISIS in Nigeria with Christmas Air Raids to Protect Christians

President Trump announced a coordinated U.S. military strike against ISIS in Nigeria targeting attacks on Christians, emphasizing decisive action to halt ongoing violence amid rising regional extremism.

Stefanos Banos Staff Writer

DECEMBER 26, 2025 AT 2:52 AM Updated: May 17, 2026 11:37 AM

President Trump announced on Thursday that the U.S. military carried out strikes against ISIS terrorists in Nigeria, who were targeting Christians with “multiple” deadly airstrikes.

Tonight, under my leadership as Commander of the Army, the United States launched a powerful and deadly strike against ISIS terrorists in Northwestern Nigeria, who have brutally targeted and massacred, primarily, innocent Christians at levels not seen in many years, even centuries!

Trump wrote this on the Truth Social platform and added:

I had previously warned these terrorists that if they didn’t stop the slaughter of Christians, there would be serious consequences—and tonight, there were.

“The Department of War executed multiple appropriate strikes, as only the United States is capable of doing,” the President stated.

Under my leadership, our country will not allow Radical Islamic Terrorism to thrive. May God bless our Army, and Merry Christmas to all, including the dead terrorists, of whom there will be many more if the slaughter of Christians continues.

The Pentagon coordinated the strikes with the Nigerian government prior to the air raids. “The Department of War collaborated with the Nigerian government to carry out these attacks,” a Pentagon spokesperson told reporters.

These strikes were approved by the Nigerian government.

Nigerian President Bola Tinubu remains silent regarding the attacks.

It is unclear how many were killed in the Christmas Day strikes. The airstrikes come one day after a bomb detonated at a mosque in the city of Maiduguri, killing five people and injuring dozens.

Nigeria has been plagued by violence committed by multiple armed groups, including Boko Haram and ISIS in West Africa.

The attack came one day after a bombing at a mosque that killed five and injured more than a dozen people.

Approximately 7,000 Christians have been slaughtered in Nigeria this year, according to the human rights organization Intersociety. A month ago, Trump warned that he would cut U.S. aid to Nigeria and intervene “armed” if the government did not do more to stop Islamist extremists from killing Christians.

Stefanos Banos

Stefanos Banos was born in Piraeus and is an editor at NewsFire.GR, specializing in political analysis and international relations. He graduated from the Department of Communication and Media at the University of Bremen in Germany, where he also completed his Master of Arts in Communication and Media Studies. Married to Zoi, he is a proud father of three boys.