The United States donated surveillance aircraft and began delivering weapons to the Philippines on Thursday to help its Asian country fight Islamist militants. The two Cessna C208B planes, which together with their equipment are worth more than $30 million, will track Islamic State group-styled gunmen as well as patrol maritime borders, US ambassador Sung Kim and Philippine Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana said. “These planes are the latest… manifestation of all that our alliance is supposed to be, […]