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President Donald Trump pumps his fist as he steps off of Air Force One on July 04, 2026 at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland. [AFP]
The United States has pulled out most of the troops deployed to Nigeria for a special operation against fighters of the Islamic State 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 IS fighters, including the jihadist 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"We have withdrawn much of our forces that were just there for that operation," US Africa Command's General Dagvin Anderson told a media briefing on Thursday from the Angolan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.
