Trump Says U.S. Strikes in Nigeria Were to Protect Christians

特朗普称美国在尼日利亚的空袭是为了保护基督徒

WSJ What’s News

2025-12-27

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P.M. Edition for Dec. 26. President Trump says the U.S. launched strikes on Islamic State targets in Nigeria to protect Christians–but Nigeria disagrees, saying the strikes weren’t aimed at protecting any particular religious group. We hear from WSJ reporter Alexandra Wexler about how Nigeria is approaching the issue. Plus, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says he’ll meet with President Trump in Florida over the weekend for talks on the plan to end the war with Russia. And WSJ national politics reporter Sabrina Siddiqui discusses changes to health policy under the Trump administration and how the “Make America Healthy Again” movement could affect next year’s midterms. Alex Ossola hosts. Programming note: What’s News is publishing once a day through Jan. 2.Sign up for the WSJ's free What's News newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  • President Trump has announced that the U.S.

  • launch strikes on Islamic State targets in Nigeria on Christmas Day to protect the country's Christian population from the terrorist group.

  • Posting on social media, Trump wrote that he had warned the group to stop killing Christians,

  • saying, quote, there would be hell to pay and tonight there was.

  • Trump's post didn't say how many people were killed.

  • Nigeria's population of 237 million people is roughly split between Muslims and Christians,