“The United States launched a powerful and deadly strike against ISIS Terrorist Scum in Northwest Nigeria,” Trump said in a post on Truth Social. “I have previously warned these Terrorists that if they did not stop the slaughtering of Christians, there would be hell to pay, and tonight there was.”

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".