DEVELOPING: Trump Orders ‘Precision Military Air Strikes’ On ISIS

President Donald Trump’s commitment to protecting the U.S. and the world from terrorist threats was on display this week when he announced a series of military strikes on targets in Somalia.

He announced the move in a social media statement on Saturday:

This morning I ordered precision Military air strikes on the Senior ISIS Attack Planner and other terrorists he recruited and led in Somalia. These killers, who we found hiding in caves, threatened the United States and our Allies. The strikes destroyed the caves they live in,…

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 1, 2025

Details were still trickling out as of this writing, per The Hill:

Trump did not name the individual who was targeted in the strike. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said multiple individuals were killed in the strike and that no civilians were harmed in the operation, which took place in the Golis mountains.

“This action further degrades ISIS’s ability to plot and conduct terrorist attacks threatening U.S. citizens, our partners, and innocent civilians and sends a clear signal that the United States always stands ready to find and eliminate terrorists who threaten the United States and our allies, even as we conduct robust border-protection and many other operations under President Trump’s leadership,” the statement from the Pentagon reads.

Trump’s announcement came as he was at his golf club in West Palm Beach, Fla.

The breaking news sparked a significant amount of social media response:

Love 💕 my President!

— Grumpy-Daddy (@HE_Detonation) February 1, 2025

January 1, 2025 began with an ISIS terrorist killing US citizens in New Orleans, and February 1, 2025 began with President Trump drone striking and killing ISIS terrorists for threatening Americans.

That’s what leadership looks like.

Thank you, President Trump! 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/ER1EZUVRPl

— Laura Loomer (@LauraLoomer) February 1, 2025

Biden on ISIS: “we will find you and we will give you billions of dollars”

— Trump World (@Louaye1980) February 1, 2025

Following a deadly attack in New Orleans that appeared to be inspired by ISIS, Trump and others in his orbit cited the need for increased security to protect the U.S. against similar threats.

As the Financial Times reported at the time:

Shamsud-Din Jabbar, the suspect authorities said had been inspired by the Isis terror group to carry out the attack and who was killed during it, was a 42-year-old US military veteran from Texas who had worked for financial services groups including Accenture and Deloitte.

On Thursday, the FBI said he acted alone. The agency also said it had established no link between the New Orleans attack and the Cybertruck explosion in Nevada, which killed one person and injured seven others.

But Trump’s allies still doubled down on claims Biden’s immigration policies — or immigration in general — were behind the violence, echoing attack lines that Trump deployed in defeating vice-president Kamala Harris in the 2024 US presidential race.

“Islamist terrorism is an import. It is not ‘homegrown’,” wrote Trump’s senior adviser Stephen Miller, on X. “It did not exist here before migration brought it here.”

Trump’s border tsar, Tom Homan, told Fox News the US had been “lax” on national security, emboldening groups such as Isis. “President Trump is going to come in office and we’re going to secure that border. We’re going to run a deportation operation. We concentrate and prioritise public safety threats and national security threats.”

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Here’s a flashback to one of Trump’s first-term victories against ISIS: