LAGOS: The United States has pulled out most of the troops deployed to Nigeria for a special operation against fighters of the Daesh group in the country’s northeast, the American military said.
In May, US and Nigerian forces in the Lake Chad region of Nigeria killed nearly 200 Daesh fighters, including the militant group’s global second-in-command.
“We have withdrawn much of our forces that were just there for that operation,” US Africa Command’s General Dagvin Anderson told a media briefing on Thursday from the Angolan capital, Luanda.
“But (we) are continuing the partnership that Nigeria has asked for to help continue with the intelligence sharing and the understanding that’s necessary to be able to prosecute these difficult tasks,” he said.
Nigerian Defense Minister Christopher Musa told AFP in an interview on Thursday that US combat troops had deployed to Nigeria specifically for the May operation.
