{"id":233498,"date":"2026-05-17T04:17:57","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T02:17:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-just-in-tinubu-confirms-joint-operation-with-u-s-killed-isis-commander-in-nigeria\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T04:17:57","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T02:17:57","slug":"nigeria-just-in-tinubu-confirms-joint-operation-with-u-s-killed-isis-commander-in-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-just-in-tinubu-confirms-joint-operation-with-u-s-killed-isis-commander-in-nigeria\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Just in &#8211; Tinubu Confirms Joint Operation With U.S. Killed Isis Commander in Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\"><em>The Nigerian leader described the operation as a product of successful partnership with the US.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/officialABAT\">President Bola<\/a><\/strong> Tinubu has confirmed that Nigeria and the US carried out a joint operation to kill a prominent terrorist.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">&#8220;Overnight, Nigeria and the United States recorded a significant example of effective collaboration in the fight against terrorism,&#8221; he wrote about two hours after US President Donald Trump made a similar announcement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nKeep up with the latest headlines on <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaIdDi8Bqbr263erhw1K\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WhatsApp<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/allafrica\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LinkedIn<\/a><br \/>\n &#8230;<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202605160047.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 Nigerian leader described the operation as a product of successful partnership with the US. President Bola Tinubu has confirmed that Nigeria and the US carried out a joint operation to kill a prominent terrorist. &#8220;Overnight, Nigeria and the United States recorded a significant example of effective collaboration in the fight against terrorism,&#8221; he wrote [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":233499,"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":[258,256,6771,6824,2744,6984,4327,257,4687,393,8556,254,8308,2282],"class_list":["post-233498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-commander","tag-confirms","tag-isis","tag-joint","tag-killed","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-operation","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tinubu","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\/233498","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=233498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}