{"id":38693,"date":"2026-07-03T12:05:58","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T10:05:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=38693"},"modified":"2026-07-03T12:05:58","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T10:05:58","slug":"us-withdrew-forces-from-nigeria-after-operation-against-isis","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/us-withdrew-forces-from-nigeria-after-operation-against-isis\/","title":{"rendered":"US withdrew forces from Nigeria after operation against ISIS"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">United States (US) has withdrawn most of the forces it deployed for a recent operation against Islamic State militants (ISIS) in Nigeria \u200band is now providing intelligence support at Abuja&#8217;s request, the \u200chead of US Africa Command (AFRICOM) said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">In May, US and Nigerian forces conducted military operations in northeastern Nigeria that killed Abu-Bilal al-Minuki, the second-in-command of ISIS globally. That followed \u200ba US strike on Christmas Day against the militants ordered by \u200bPresident Donald Trump, who said they had been targeting Christians \u2060in the African country.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Addressing a conference of African Defence Chiefs in Angola \u200bon Thursday, AFRICOM Commander General Dagvin Anderson described May&#8217;s joint US-Nigerian as \u200ba model for future security cooperation in Africa.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">\u00a0&#8220;We have withdrawn much of our forces that were just there for that operation but are continuing the partnership that \u200bNigeria has asked for to help continue with the intelligence sharing,&#8221; Anderson \u200btold journalists during a US State Department-hosted briefing after the conference.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Anderson said the operation, \u200cin \u2060Nigeria&#8217;s Lake Chad Basin region, demonstrated Washington&#8217;s approach of providing specialised capabilities while allowing African partners to lead security operations.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":38694,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-38693","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"US has withdrawn most of the forces it deployed in Nigeria","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/38693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/38693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38695,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/38693\/revisions\/38695"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=38693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}