Three Turkish police officers and six Islamic State militants were killed in a gunfight in northwest Turkey on Monday, the Interior Minister said, a week after more than 100 suspected IS militants were detained for planning Christmas and New Year attacks.

The interior minister the operation in Yalova was one of more than a hundred simultaneous raids carried out against ISIS suspects in 15 provinces across the country.

The United States and its partner forces killed or captured nearly 25 Islamic State operatives since it launched retaliatory strikes in Syria earlier this month, the U.S. military said on Tuesday. The U.S. carried out large-scale strikes against dozens of Islamic State targets in Syria on Dec. 19 in retaliation for an attack on American personnel.

Turkish police raided a house where Islamic State members were believed to be hiding, the latest in a series of operations against the militant group amid warnings of a possible New Year’s Eve attack.

A decade ago, the self-proclaimed Islamic State group held vast swaths of territory across Iraq and Syria, but President Trump declared it destroyed in 2019.

President Trump says he launched a “powerful and deadly strike” against Islamic State forces in Nigeria, after he spent weeks decrying the group for targeting Christians.

In Syria, Islamic State terrorist attacks against Americans continue, including against three Americans who were killed last weekend.

President Trump said "numerous perfect strikes" had hit Islamic State militants in the West African nation of Nigeria.

The U.S. military carried out strikes on alleged terrorists in northwest Nigeria on Thursday in retaliation for attacks on Christians by Islamists.

Trump said the airstrikes were launched against Islamic State militants “who have been targeting and viciously killing, primarily, innocent Christians.”

President Trump said the targets of airstrikes in Nigeria were Islamic State terrorists responsible for killing Christians, but experts question his framing.