President Trump said the targets of airstrikes in Nigeria were Islamic State terrorists responsible for killing Christians, but experts question his framing.

Nicki Minaj's UN speech on Christian persecution in Nigeria preceded Trump's Christmas airstrikes. Officials call the claims exaggerated, while the rapper stays silent on the strikes.

A special adviser to Nigerian President Bola Tinubu on Friday said the government had shared intelligence information with the U.S. prior to the strikes, but acknowledged that it was not clear yet who exactly was the target.

Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., assesses President Donald Trump’s decisive strikes against ISIS in Nigeria on ‘The Story.’

The U.S. has been conducting intelligence-gathering flights over large parts of Nigeria since late November, according to flight tracking data and current and former U.S. officials, in a sign of increased security cooperation between the countries.