{"id":4167,"date":"2026-05-16T09:54:55","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T09:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.worldwatchalert.com\/?p=4167"},"modified":"2026-05-16T09:54:56","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T09:54:56","slug":"donald-trump-says-isis-deputy-abu-bilal-al-minuki-killed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.worldwatchalert.com\/?p=4167","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump says ISIS deputy Abu Bilal al-Minuki killed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>WASHINGTON: Donald Trump said on Friday that Abu Bilal al-Minuki, described as the second-in-command of ISIS globally, had been eliminated during a joint operation carried out by US and Nigerian forces.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a post on , Trump said: \u201cTonight, at my direction, brave American forces and the Armed Forces of Nigeria flawlessly executed a meticulously planned and very complex mission to eliminate the most active terrorist in the world from the battlefield.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"zxx\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VvOP8wRup9\">pic.twitter.com\/VvOP8wRup9<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RapidResponse47\/status\/2055491489870778438?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 16, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>He added that \u201cAbu-Bilal al-Minuki, second in command of ISIS globally, thought he could hide in Africa, but little did he know we had sources who kept us informed on what he was doing.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trump also thanked the Nigerian government for cooperating with the United States in the operation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nigeria had previously faced criticism from Trump, who accused the country of allowing the persecution of Christians \u2014 allegations the Nigerian government has denied.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last year on Christmas Day, the United States carried out strikes on what it described as militant bases in northwestern Nigeria after Trump made those accusations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, Bola Tinubu and Nigeria\u2019s military confirmed that al-Minuki was killed in Nigeria during a joint operation involving Nigerian and US forces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOur determined Nigerian Armed Forces, working closely with the Armed Forces of the United States, conducted a daring joint operation that dealt a heavy blow to the ranks of the Islamic State,\u201d Tinubu said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nigeria\u2019s defence forces described Abu Bilal al-Minuki as a \u201csenior ISIS leader and one of the world\u2019s most active terrorists.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON: Donald Trump said on Friday that Abu Bilal al-Minuki, described as the second-in-command of ISIS globally, had been eliminated during a joint operation carried out by US and Nigerian&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4168,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[100,2198],"class_list":["post-4167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-donald-trump","tag-isis"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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