US Strikes Kill Additional Islamic Militants in Northern Nigeria

US Africa Command shares video of lethal ISIS airstrike in Nigeria

The operation was carried out as part of ongoing intelligence-led cooperation between the United States and Nigeria aimed at disrupting ISIS-linked militant networks operating across West Africa.

Al-Minuki was placed under US sanctions in 2023, when the State Department labelled him a "specially designated global terrorist".

While the killing dealt one of the biggest blows to ISIS’s global network in years, disrupting operations in northeastern Nigeria, the terror group's top leader, Abu Hafs al-Hashimi al-Qurashi, remains at large as Africa becomes the movement's global epicenter.