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Sokoto State

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Questions remain over targeting and impact of US airstrikes on Lakurawa in northwest Nigeria — I.guim.co.uk

Questions remain over targeting and impact of US airstrikes on Lakurawa in northwest Nigeria

Two weeks after US airstrikes on Christmas Day in northwest Nigeria, questions persist over which group was targeted and the strikes' impact. The operation, coordinated with Nigeria, targeted an Islamist group known as Lakurawa, which extorts the mainly Muslim local population and enforces a strict version of sharia law.

U.S. Christmas-night missiles leave debris and fear in Sokoto town — Static01.nyt.com

U.S. Christmas-night missiles leave debris and fear in Sokoto town

Debris from a missile landed near a round well and burned corn stalks in Jabo, a farming town in Sokoto State, after strikes ordered by President Trump on Christmas night, residents and officials said. Three herders who traveled to see the damage walked the lip of a shallow crater where