India, May 16 -- Donald Trump announced on Friday that American forces, working together with the Nigerian military, had successfully killed Abu-Bilal al-Minuki, a senior ISIS leader described as the group's global second-in-command. According to Trump, the operation took place in Nigeria and was carried out jointly by the United States and Nigerian armed forces through what he described as a highly coordinated mission.

"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...