A U.S. airstrike that targeted an alleged Islamic State camp in Nigeria has caused panic in the village of Jabo

CNN’s Rahel Solomon spoke to Nigerian foreign minister Yusuf Tuggar after President Donald Trump said he ordered a deadly strike on Islamic State terrorists in Nigeria, whom he accused of persecuting Christians in the country.

President Donald Trump vowed that the United States would wage more military strikes if the ongoing persecution of Christians persists in the country.

Nigerian President Bola Tinubu gave the U.S. government the "go-ahead" to carry out airstrikes on ISIS targets.

By publicly cooperating with the United States on a Christmas Day airstrike, Nigeria's government may have averted humiliating unilateral military action threatened a month ago by President Donald Trump.

Some Nigerian Church leaders welcomed U.S. airstrikes against the Islamic State group militants, but some church leaders questioned the religious framing for the strikes.