The US launched strikes in northwestern Nigeria overnight - in cooperation with Abuja. Donald Trump claimed to hit "ISIS terrorist scum", but a Nigerian presidential adviser has told Sky News that details of who was targeted are "sketchy".

President Donald Trump — the self-described “most anti-war president in history” — has now ordered the bombing of more countries than any president in history as US forces carried out Christmas day strikes on what the White House claimed were Islamic State militants killing Christians in Nigeria.

Yusuf Tuggar says strikes against group accused by Donald Trump of attacking Christian communities will be an ‘ongoing process’

The bombing is the latest in a series of attacks in Nigeria's troubled northern region, where the country is battling multiple armed groups, including Boko Haram and its splinter group, Islamic State West Africa Province.

The US launched strikes in northwestern Nigeria overnight - in cooperation with Abuja - claiming hits on IS targets were in defence of Christians in the country. Data, however, doesn't suggest Christians are uniquely persecuted.

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