The government of Nigeria confirmed on Tuesday that the United States had initiated the planned withdrawal of about 200 troops deployed in the country in February to combat radical Islamic terrorists.
The deployment, reportedly at the behest of the Nigerian government, was in response to the pervasive threat of radical jihadist paramilitaries in the country’s north and Middle Belt, which have regularly waged genocidal war against the indigenous Christian populations of those regions. Nigeria is home to a variety of jihadist terrorist groups, most prominently Boko Haram, a Boko Haram splinter group tied to the Islamic State, and the organized…
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