Two ISIS-linked camps have been taken out in US-backed airstrikes on Christmas, the Nigerian authorities confirmed Saturday. 

“These locations were being used as assembly and staging grounds by foreign ISIS elements infiltrating Nigeria from the Sahel region … to plan and execute large-scale terrorist attacks within Nigerian territory,” Muhammed Idris, Nigeria’s Minister of Information and National Orientation, mentioned in a press release.

Sixteen precision munitions have been launched from a platform within the Gulf of Guinea towards two main ISIS enclaves within the Bauni Forest of the Sokoto State on the nation’s northern border, “successfully neutralizing the targeted ISIS elements,” Idris mentioned.

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