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 “We have withdrawn much of our forces that were just there for that operation,” US Africa Command’s General Dagvin Anderson told a media briefing on Thursday from the Angolan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.

The US has withdrawn most troops from Nigeria's Lake Chad Basin but continues vital intelligence sharing and security cooperation to combat terrorism.

The United States has withdrawn the majority of its military personnel deployed to Nigeria for a joint counterterrorism mission in the Lake Chad Basin, while maintaining…