Trump says – President Donald Trump announced on Truth Social that U.S. and Nigerian forces killed a senior ISIS leader in Africa, describing the target as the terror group’s global second-in-command and saying the individual had been under monitoring before being killed.
President Donald Trump said the United States and Nigerian forces killed a top ISIS leader in Africa, naming the figure as the terror group’s second-in-command worldwide. Trump made the announcement on Truth Social, adding that the leader was being monitored before the killing.
The statement lands as Washington continues to treat ISIS leadership as a persistent, high-stakes priority overseas.. Trump’s account did not provide additional operational details. but it framed the death as a direct result of the combined U.S.-Nigerian effort and presented it as the removal of the organization’s senior command structure.
The pattern of urgency is hard to miss: Trump tied the strike to a specific role inside ISIS—global second-in-command—and paired it with a lead-in that the target was already under monitoring before being killed, making the death the culmination of an ongoing pursuit.
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