{"id":218318,"date":"2025-12-28T03:21:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T01:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-no-civilian-casualties-recorded-so-far-from-u-s-strike-sokoto-govt\/"},"modified":"2025-12-28T03:21:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T01:21:07","slug":"nigeria-no-civilian-casualties-recorded-so-far-from-u-s-strike-sokoto-govt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-no-civilian-casualties-recorded-so-far-from-u-s-strike-sokoto-govt\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: No Civilian Casualties Recorded So Far From U.S. Strike &#8211; Sokoto Govt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\"><em>The state government in a statement says the operations targeted terrorist strongholds within the Tangaza Local Government Area.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">The <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SokotoGovtHouse\">Sokoto State Government<\/a><\/strong> has confirmed that missile strikes conducted on Thursday by the US military targeted terrorist strongholds within the Tangaza Local Government Area (LGA).<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">The government also said no civilian casualties have so far been recorded from the strikes in both Tangaza and neighbouring Tambuwal LGA.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">Earlier, the Chairman of Tangaza Local Government&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512270050.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The state government in a statement says the operations targeted terrorist strongholds within the Tangaza Local Government Area. The Sokoto State Government has confirmed that missile strikes conducted on Thursday by the US military targeted terrorist strongholds within the Tangaza Local Government Area (LGA). The government also said no civilian casualties have so far been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":218319,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00231059:be45745983a2b7ad454a31173c7c568b:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,20630,16783,4357,257,4687,393,10499,8447,254,2080,2282],"class_list":["post-218318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-casualties","tag-civilian","tag-govt","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-recorded","tag-sokoto","tag-south-africa-today","tag-strike","tag-u-s"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00231059:be45745983a2b7ad454a31173c7c568b:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218318\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}