{"id":143399,"date":"2026-02-19T12:29:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T17:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=143399"},"modified":"2026-02-19T18:32:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T23:32:10","slug":"reuters-u-s-troops-arrive-in-nigeria-as-trump-raises-fears-for-safety-of-christians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=143399","title":{"rendered":"(Reuters) U.S. troops arrive in Nigeria as Trump raises fears for safety of Christians"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>About 100 US&nbsp;military personnel have arrived in Nigeria as Washington scales up an operation to target Islamist insurgents, a Nigerian defence spokesperson said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>US&nbsp;President Donald Trump has accused Nigeria of failing to protect&nbsp;Christians from Islamist militants in the northwest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nigeria denies discriminating against any religion, saying its security forces target armed groups that attack both&nbsp;Christians and Muslims.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/premierchristian.news\/en\/news\/article\/us-troops-arrive-in-nigeria-as-trump-raises-fears-for-safety-of-christians>Read it all<\/a>.<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Nigeria says 100 more U.S. military personnel arrive to tackle Islamists <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FWHI11SmzI\">https:\/\/t.co\/FWHI11SmzI<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FWHI11SmzI\">https:\/\/t.co\/FWHI11SmzI<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Reuters (@Reuters) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Reuters\/status\/2023519052346355967?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 16, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About 100 US&nbsp;military personnel have arrived in Nigeria as Washington scales up an operation to target Islamist insurgents, a Nigerian defence spokesperson said. US&nbsp;President Donald Trump has accused Nigeria of failing to protect&nbsp;Christians from Islamist militants in the northwest. Nigeria<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=143399\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[209,144,106,554,108,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americau-s-a","category-foreign-relations","category-military-armed-forces","category-nigeria-africa","category-religion-culture","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=143399"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":143404,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143399\/revisions\/143404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=143399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=143399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=143399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}