Washington Post praises Trump’s Nigeria ISIS strikes targeting militants

The Washington Publish editorial board stated the Trump administration’s navy strikes on ISIS targets in Nigeria have been a “welcome change” and that the president can be “smart to stay engaged” within the area.

In an editorial Saturday, the Publish on Thursday praised President Donald Trump’s “righteous assaults” towards the Islamic State affiliate in Nigeria’s Sahel province, the place Christians and Christian establishments have been attacked in latest months.

“A big group of advisers to President Donald Trump need the US to desert its far-flung commitments overseas and as a substitute turn out to be a regional energy targeted on the Western Hemisphere. The president’s righteous assault on Islamic State targets in Nigeria reminds us that America is able to rather more.” the editors argued.

On Thursday, Trump posted on Fact Social asserting that the U.S. navy launched airstrikes in northwestern Nigeria on Christmas evening, concentrating on ISIS militants he accused of killing Christians. He known as the operation decisive and warned that additional assaults would observe if the violence continued.

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In April 2025, at the very least 51 Christians have been killed in an assault within the Nigerian state of Plateau. (Reuters)

“Tonight, at my course as Commander in Chief, the US launched a robust and lethal assault on ISIS terrorists in Northwestern Nigeria, predominately concentrating on and brutally killing harmless Christians at ranges not seen in a few years and even centuries!” Trump wrote on Thursday.

Whereas the Publish supported the Trump administration’s intervention within the area, the paper said that “the query is whether or not this can be a one-off determination or the start of a extra constant and coherent coverage.”

The editorial board famous that it understands “the will to desert the whole area,” however made the case for why Trump ought to proceed his efforts within the area, part of the world that the Publish stated has “all the time been little greater than an afterthought for the president.”

“The US strikes in Nigeria focused the Islamic State department in Sahel province, which has clashed violently over territory in recent times with JNIM, an al-Qaeda affiliate at the moment attempting to grab management of Mali by stopping gas from coming into the capital Bamako,” the newspaper reported. “If Mali falls, it might mark the primary takeover of a rustic by an anti-Western Islamic terrorist group because the Taliban took over Afghanistan.”

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In keeping with the Publish, the Sahel area, which stretches from Mauritania by means of Chad, has turn out to be “the world’s largest epicenter for world terrorism,” and the place half of the world’s terrorism deaths happen.

The Washington Publish praised President Donald Trump’s “righteous assaults” on ISIS targets in Nigeria. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Pictures)

After many years of warfare drove many terror teams out of the areas they as soon as managed in Iraq and Syria, these teams have “discovered fertile floor in West Africa,” the paper argued.

Whereas the editorial praised the federal government’s intervention within the area as a step in the correct course, it warned that with out sustained help, these efforts might show futile.

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Because the Publish reported, the U.S. as soon as had a regional counterterrorism plan known as the Trans-Saharan Counterterrorism Partnership, however a latest audit discovered this system “underfunded, leaderless and largely ineffective.” The newspaper added that the Pentagon can also be contemplating remerging the African Command with the European Command, which was separated in 2008.

This photograph launched by the Christian Affiliation of Nigeria reveals the dormitories of St. Mary’s Catholic Major and Secondary Faculty after gunmen kidnapped youngsters and employees within the Papiri group in Nigeria, Friday, November 21, 2025. (Christian Affiliation of Nigeria through AP)

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“Nigeria, a comparatively affluent nation within the area, continues to face insecurity on a number of fronts. The central authorities has been ineffective in restoring safety. It’s good that Abuja is prepared to work intently with Washington to cease the carnage, and Trump can be smart to stay engaged,” the submit concluded.

Fox Information’ Greg Wehner contributed to this report.