{"id":8647,"date":"2025-12-26T13:55:43","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T13:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/2025\/12\/26\/live-nigeria-confirms-us-strikes-on-isil-targets-in-its-northwest-al-jazeera\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T13:55:43","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T13:55:43","slug":"live-nigeria-confirms-us-strikes-on-isil-targets-in-its-northwest-al-jazeera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/2025\/12\/26\/live-nigeria-confirms-us-strikes-on-isil-targets-in-its-northwest-al-jazeera\/","title":{"rendered":"LIVE: Nigeria confirms US strikes on ISIL targets in its northwest &#8211; Al Jazeera"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><main><\/p>\n<div role=\"main\">\n<header>\n<div>\n<p><em>Nigeria says US claims that Christians face persecution ignore efforts by authorities to safeguard religious freedom.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2025-12-26T065446Z_1838506797_RC26OIAIPI5M_RTRMADP_3_USA-TRUMP-NIGERIA-1766733287.jpg?resize=730%2C410&#038;quality=80\"   alt=\"Nigeria\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span>Video Duration 00 minutes 17 seconds <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>00:17<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>US releases missile launch video after northwest Nigeria strike<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"wysiwyg\">\n<ul>\n<li>The United \u200dStates \u200dhas carried out an air strike against\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/tag\/isil-isis\/\">ISIL (ISIS)<\/a> fighters in northwest Nigeria, US \u2060President Donald Trump \u200bsays, claiming that the armed group had \u201c\u200ctargeted and viciously\u201d killed \u201cprimarily, innocent Christians, at \u2060levels not seen for many years, and even Centuries!\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Nigeria\u2019s Foreign Minister Yusuf Tuggar tells Al Jazeera the US attack was coordinated with the Nigerian government.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/main><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria says US claims that Christians face persecution ignore efforts by authorities to safeguard religious freedom. Video Duration 00 minutes 17 seconds 00:17 US releases missile launch video after northwest Nigeria strike The United \u200dStates \u200dhas carried out an air strike against\u00a0ISIL (ISIS) fighters in northwest Nigeria, US \u2060President Donald Trump \u200bsays, claiming that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8648,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8647\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}