NPR News: 12-25-2025 11PM EST
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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Dan Roran. U.S. forces launched a strike against Islamic State fighters in northwest Nigeria, according to President Trump, who made the announcement in a social media post Thursday evening.
NPR's Scott Newman reports.
What recent military action did the U.S. take against ISIS in Nigeria?
Writing on Truth Social, Trump suggested that the attack on ISIS militants was in response to, quote, targeting and viciously killing of Christians in the country's northwest. The Pentagon confirmed the strike. which it said was carried out in Sokoto State at the request of Nigerian authorities. Trump has accused Nigeria of failing to stop the persecution of Christians in the country, and last month he said he ordered the Pentagon to draw up plans for possible military action against ISIS there. Nigeria is roughly evenly divided between Christians and Muslims, the country's government says attacks by militant groups are less about religion and more about where the groups operate. In his post, Trump wished a, quote, Merry Christmas to all, including the dead terrorists.
Scott Newman, NPR News, Washington.
2025 has been a year of unprecedented immigration enforcement across the United States as the Trump administration has deported more than 500,000 undocumented immigrants. NPR's Jasmine Gard says that undocumented parents are taking steps to protect their children.
While immigration lawyers are advising that undocumented parents set up emergency guardianship for their U.S. citizen children, what that means is legally designating someone who can step in as a guardian if the parents are detained. Over the summer, I spoke to an American mom in Washington, D.C., who asked to remain anonymous because she didn't want to put the Honduran family she's friends with at risk. She had just signed this paperwork to become the emergency guardian for her teenage son's best friend in case his parents were deported to Honduras.
The body of the last Israeli hostage in Gaza has not been found, raising questions whether Israel will start the second phase of a ceasefire deal. NPR's Ava Batrani.
The mother of slain Israeli police officer Ran Gavili says she will travel with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the U.S. next week for his meeting with President Trump to ensure that there will be no advancement to the next phase of the ceasefire in Gaza until her son's body is returned. A Hamas official who spoke to NPR on condition of anonymity to discuss the ongoing search says the group has no leads on where the body might be, despite continuing to search among mounds of rubble from Israeli airstrikes where thousands of Palestinian bodies also remain trapped and unretrieved. A delegation of Israeli security officials met with Egyptian mediators in Cairo this week to discuss the search.
Meanwhile, Israel's defense minister said for the second time this week that Israeli troops will remain in north Gaza as a precursor to Jewish settlements there, in contradiction to Trump's ceasefire plan signed by Israel. Aya Beltraoui, NPR News.
It's NPR. Prosecutors in Paris say a pro-Russian hacking group is claiming responsibility for a recent significant cyber attack on the French National Post service. Package deliveries came to a halt just days before Christmas as the central computers were knocked offline Monday and postal workers could not track packages and online payments were also disrupted. France and other European allies are accusing Moscow of waging unlawful a hybrid war against them because of their support for Ukraine in the nearly four-year-old war with Russia. Christmas celebrations have returned to Gaza for the first time in more than two years. NPR's Anas Baba reports the tiny Palestinian church community in Gaza marked the day with hymns and bells tolling.
For the past two years, Christians here in Gaza hunkered down behind the walls of this church, the only one left standing in Gaza. They lived here, prayed here, and survived the Israeli military's bombardments of Gaza City. More than 20 Christians were killed in the Israeli attacks at this church and another that was destroyed.
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