Donald Trump says US has taken out ‘world’s most active terrorist’ in latest military operation

President Donald Trump announced late last week that joint US and Nigerian forces have killed a senior ISIS head described as being the “most active terrorist in the world”.

“Tonight, at my direction, brave American forces and the Armed Forces of Nigeria flawlessly executed a meticulously planned and very complex mission to eliminate the most active terrorist in the world from the battlefield,” Trump penned on Truth Social. As per the BBC, Mainuki was killed along with “several of his lieutenants” during a strike on his compound in the Lake Chad Basin, a region of waterways and swampland stretching across Nigeria, Chad, Niger and Cameroon.