Nigeria signals more strikes likely in 'joint' US operations

The west African country faces multiple interlinked security crises in its north, where jihadists have been waging an insurgency in the northeast since 2009 and armed "bandit" gangs raid villages and stage kidnappings in the northwest. The US strikes come after Abuja and Washington were locked in a diplomatic dispute over what Trump characterised as the mass killing of Christians amid Nigeria's myriad armed conflicts. Nigeria's military said in a statement that its forces, in conjunction with the...