India, May 16 -- US President Donald Trump announced on Friday (local time) that his country's forces had eliminated Abu-Bilal al-Minuki, the second in command of ISIS globally, in Nigeria.

According to Trump, the operation to kill Abu-Bilal al-Minuki was carried out jointly by the US and the Nigerian armed forces.

"Tonight, 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. Abu-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," Trump wrote on Truth Social.

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