{"id":43604,"date":"2026-05-18T18:03:34","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T16:03:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/2026\/05\/18\/nigeria-who-was-the-targeted-islamic-state-group-leader-and-why-was-he-targeted-by-the-us\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T18:03:34","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T16:03:34","slug":"nigeria-who-was-the-targeted-islamic-state-group-leader-and-why-was-he-targeted-by-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/2026\/05\/18\/nigeria-who-was-the-targeted-islamic-state-group-leader-and-why-was-he-targeted-by-the-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Who was the targeted Islamic State group leader and why was he targeted by the US?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>On May 16, a senior IS group figure was killed in a strike led by Nigerian and US forces as part of a joint operation to target jihadists of the group in the northeast of Nigeria. But although Abu-Bilal al-Minuki was a prominent figure of the IS group, he wasn&rsquo;t the second-in-command of IS group worldwide, as US President Donald Trump claimed at the time of his killing. FRANCE 24&rsquo;s Wassim Nasr tells us more about who he was, and what his death means for Nigeria.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On May 16, a senior IS group figure was killed in a strike led by Nigerian and US forces as part of a joint operation to target jihadists of the group in the northeast of Nigeria. But although Abu-Bilal al-Minuki was a prominent figure of the IS group, he wasn&rsquo;t the second-in-command of IS group &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4],"class_list":["post-43604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-headlines","tag-africa","tag-afrique"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43604"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}