US strikes targeted IS militants, Nigeria saysListen to this articleDestroyed structures are seen in Offa, in Kwara state, where Nigeria said buildings were hit by debris from expended munitions that fell from US strikes on unspecified militants linked to the Islamic State group. (Photo: AFP)ABUJA - US strikes in Nigeria this week targeted Islamic State militants from the Sahel who were in the country to work with the Lakurawa jihadist group and “bandit” gangs, a spokesman for the Nigerian president told AFP on Saturday. Washington and Abuja previously said they targeted IS-linked militants, without providing details on which of Nigeria’s myriad armed groups were attacked. “ISIS, Lakurawa and bandits were targeted,” Daniel Bwala, a spokesman for President Bola Tinubu, told AFP on Saturday. On Friday, Information Minister Mohammed Idris said the strikes hit “two major Islamic State (ISIS) terrorist enclaves” in Sokoto state’s Tangaza district.

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