Nigeria's air force will take the lead from the United States after Washington's Christmas Day strikes on jihadists, making use of US reconnaissance flights to aid its own strikes, a Nigerian official ...

Nigeria, which is battling multiple armed groups, said last month that the US strikes were part of an exchange of intelligence and strategic coordination between the two nations. View on euronews ...

The Nigerian Air Force will take charge of further military air operations following United States strikes carried out on Christmas Day, as Washington shifts to an intelligence support role.

A month before the US carried out its Christmas day attack on militants linked to the Islamic State group (IS) in north-western Nigeria, president Donald Trump had declared Nigeria a “country of ...