{"id":233437,"date":"2026-05-16T16:17:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T14:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-trump-says-u-s-partners-with-nigeria-to-kill-islamic-state-top-commander\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T16:17:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T14:17:07","slug":"nigeria-trump-says-u-s-partners-with-nigeria-to-kill-islamic-state-top-commander","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-trump-says-u-s-partners-with-nigeria-to-kill-islamic-state-top-commander\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Trump Says U.S. Partners With Nigeria to Kill Islamic State Top Commander"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">Mr Mainok, according to documents obtained from US registers, was specially designated as a &#8220;global terrorist&#8221; in 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"46\">United States President Donald Trump has announced the killing of Abubakar Mainok, also known as Abu-Bilal al-Mainuki, a senior Islamic State commander described as the group&#8217;s global second-in-command. Mr Trump called the attack a &#8220;meticulously planned and very complex mission&#8221; carried out in partnership with Nigerian.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"11\"><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202605160047.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Tinubu Confirms Joint Operation With U.S. Killed Isis&#8230;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202605160048.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>Mr Mainok, according to documents obtained from US registers, was specially designated as a &#8220;global terrorist&#8221; in 2023. United States President Donald Trump has announced the killing of Abubakar Mainok, also known as Abu-Bilal al-Mainuki, a senior Islamic State commander described as the group&#8217;s global second-in-command. Mr Trump called the attack a &#8220;meticulously planned and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":233438,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,6771,645,4266,257,4687,393,5189,254,6017,7319,6264,2282],"class_list":["post-233437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-commander","tag-islamic","tag-kill","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-partners","tag-south-africa-today","tag-state","tag-top","tag-trump","tag-u-s"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233437","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=233437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}