An explosion tore through a mosque during evening prayers on Wednesday in Maiduguri, the capital of Nigeria’s Borno state, a Reuters witness said. There was no immediate word on casualties or official comment.

US forces carried out precision airstrikes against ISIS in Nigeria's Sokoto State on Christmas Day, killing several militants in a move ordered by President Trump to protect Christians.

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.

After months of warning that the US could take military action to stop violence against Christians in Nigeria, President Donald Trump announced on Christmas Day that he had done just that – delivering a strike on Islamic State terrorists in the country’s northwest.

President Donald Trump said he ordered military strikes against "ISIS terrorist scum" in Nigeria on Christmas Day.

Maiduguri has long been the epicenter of a nearly two-decade insurgency led by Boko Haram, founded in the city in 2009, and its splinter faction, Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP).

An explosion in a mosque in Maiduguri, northeastern Nigeria, killed at least seven worshippers. The blast, suspected as a bombing, highlights ongoing threats from Boko Haram and ISWAP insurgents.