United States Congress

Bipartisan vote authorizes President Trump to use targeted military action against armed groups accused of killing Christian civilians in northern Nigeria.

United States Congress has overwhelmingly approved a resolution granting President Donald Trump authority to launch targeted military action against armed groups in Nigeria, marking one of Washington’s most assertive foreign-policy moves in West Africa in years.

The vote—285 in favor and 98 against—followed an emergency joint session that brought together Democrats and Republicans who described the escalating violence in northern and central Nigeria as a major humanitarian and security crisis. The resolution will become law once signed by the …