Nigeria's Military Claims 1,487 Terrorists Killed in Two-Month Blitz as US Troops Depart

Nigeria's military disclosed today that troops conducted 7,062 operations over the past two months, killing 1,487 terrorists and rescuing 777 kidnapped victims in what amounts to the most aggressive counterterrorism push in recent memory. Defence Information Director Major-General Samaila Uba presented the figures at a security briefing organized by the National Counter Terrorism Centre in Abuja. The numbers landed on the same day President Bola Tinubu urged...