{"id":58428,"date":"2026-05-19T17:06:56","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T17:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/applenews.cloud.aawsat.london\/?p=58428"},"modified":"2026-05-19T17:45:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T17:45:11","slug":"nigeria-says-joint-us-strikes-kill-175-isis-militants-senior-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/applenews.cloud.aawsat.london\/?p=58428","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria Says Joint US Strikes Kill 175 ISIS Militants, Senior Leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nigerian forces, working with the United States, have killed 175 ISIS militants in a series of joint air and ground strikes in the country&#8217;s northeast in recent days, the Defense Headquarters said on Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p>The military said operations conducted with US Africa Command destroyed checkpoints, weapons caches, logistics hubs, and financing networks \u200cused by ISIS West Africa Province, which \u200chas \u2060led a years-long \u2060insurgency in the region. <\/p>\n<p>Since suffering major setbacks in the Middle East, ISIS has pivoted toward Africa, which accounted for 86% of the group&#8217;s global activity in the first three \u2060months of 2026, according to crisis \u200cmonitoring group Armed \u200cConflict Location &#038; Event Data. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As of 19 May, \u200cassessments indicate that 175 ISIS militants have \u200cbeen eliminated from the battlefield,&#8221; Nigeria&#8217;s Defense spokesperson Major-General Samaila Uba said in a statement. <\/p>\n<p>Strikes that killed Abu-Bilal al-Minuki on May \u200c16, described by both governments as ISIS\u2019s global No. 2, \u2060were followed \u2060by further raids last weekend that also killed Abd al-Wahhab, an ISWAP leader overseeing attacks and propaganda, Abu Musa al-Mangawi, and Abu al-Muthanna al-Muhajir, a senior media operative and close associate of al-Minuki, the statement said. <\/p>\n<p>The Defense Headquarters said the operations formed part of an ongoing campaign to &#8220;hunt down and destroy&#8221; militants threatening Nigeria and the wider region. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/english.aawsat.com\/node\/5275057\">Original Post<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigerian forces, working with the United States, have killed 175 ISIS militants in a series of joint air and ground strikes in the country&#8217;s northeast in recent days, the Defense Headquarters said on Tuesday. 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