Trump suggested on Saturday the U.S. could enter Nigeria "guns-a-blazing," separately telling reporters aboard Air Force One the following day that U.S. forces may launch aerial attacks or have a military presence in the country.

What is the decades-old conflict in Nigeria about, and why is Trump suddenly talking about going there to 'wipe out Islamic terrorists'? We explain.

Trump is pushing a strange, inaccurate narrative about Nigeria, which has roughly equal-sized populations of Christians and Muslims. Armed conflict in the northeast of the country, which is a majority Muslim region, has gone on for more than 15 years and is not targeted systematically at Christians.

The Trump administration is threatening military action in Nigeria, saying record numbers of Christians are being killed there.

A Nigerian man has called out US President Donald Trump for allegedly trying to use threats of military action to negotiate trade deals with Nigeria.

President Donald Trump was heading to Florida on Friday, watching Fox News, when he saw the network run a story on how Christians were being targeted by Islamic groups in Nigeria, two sources familiar with the matter told CNN.

Nigerian missionary and community activist Fred Williams recalls New York’s 9/11 not only because of the previously unthinkable terrorist attack. Sept. 11, 2001, was also the

China’s Foreign Ministry has responded to President Donald Trump’s threat of military action over what he called the “mass slaughter” of Nigerian Christians, criticizing his remarks as a "wanton" threat of force.

President Donald Trump’s recent threat to send troops “guns-a-blazing” to Nigeria to stop the persecution of Christians is exposing tensions inside the administration over how to approach both Abuja and West Africa as a whole.