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ZAMBOANGA CITY (Eagle News) – Doble bantay ngayon ang mga tauhan ng Philippine National Police (PNP) at Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) sa Zamboanga Port Area. Ito ay dahil sa pagdating ng mga kalalakihan mula sa isla ng Basilan, Sulu at Tawi-tawi na dadalo sa dalawang araw na Bangsamoro general assembly sa Maguindanao. Inaasahan din na dadagsain ng maraming kalalakihan ang Bangsamoro general assembly na isasagawa ngayong darating na Nobyembre 26 at 27 sa […]
Announcement comes as Malaysia makes public arrest of 20 terrorists funding militants in the Philippines The Philippines Anti-Money Laundering Council and Australia’s financial intelligence agency AUSTRAC will lead an alliance between Southeast Asian countries and Australia aimed at choking financing for militant networks, Canberra said Wednesday, as Malaysian authorities revealed 20 militants who were financing terrorists in the Philippines had been arrested. Australian Justice Minister Michael Keenan said the South East Asia Counter Terrorism Financing Working Group was […]
(Eagle News) — Three men who police said plotted to attack Metro Manila during the recently concluded Association of Southeast Asian Nations Summit were arrested by authorities in Quezon City, the police said on Friday. Philippine National Police Chief Ronald dela Rosa said suspects Abdulgaffar Jikiri alias Abu Bakar Jikiri, 19; Alim Sabtalin, 19; and Sadam Jhofar, 24; were apprehended by joint Quezon City Police District and National Bureau of Investigation-counter-terrorism division elements in Salam […]
(Eagle News) — A Malaysian who fought alongside terrorists in Marawi is the new Islamic State emir in Southeast Asia. This is according to Philippine National Police Chief Roland dela Rosa,who spoke in a press conference on Monday. “(Amin Baco) is not only leading the remaining stragglers (in Marawi), but also the whole Southeast Asia,” De la Rosa said, citing information provided by Mohammad Ilham Syahputra, who was arrested in Marawi last week. De la Rosa said […]
(Eagle News) – President Rodrigo Duterte has reorganized the composition of Task Force Bangon Marawi, as he directed that the Task Force be headed by the chairman of the Housing and Urban Development Coordinating Council (HUDCC) with the focus redirected on “full-blown reconstruction” of the devastated city. The President signed Administrative Order No. 9 on October 27 ordering the change in the structure of the Task Force as he saw the necessity of a […]
by Jennie MATTHEW / Thomas Urbain in Paterson Agence France-Presse NEW YORK, United States (AFP) – The Uzbek immigrant behind New York’s worst attack in 16 years confessed to acting in the name of the Islamic State group and “felt good” about the killings, having planned an assault for a year, investigators said Wednesday. The shocking details emerged after federal agents questioned Sayfullo Saipov in a Manhattan hospital, injured with a police bullet to the abdomen after […]
by Laura Bonilla Cal and Jennie Matthew Agence France Presse A pickup driver killed eight people in New York on Tuesday, mowing down cyclists and pedestrians before striking a school bus, in the city’s first deadly attack blamed on terror since September 11, 2001. Eleven others were seriously hurt when the truck driver struck in broad daylight just blocks from the 9/11 Memorial, on the West Side of Lower Manhattan, close to schools as children […]
by Cecil Morella Agence France Presse MARAWI, Philippines (AFP) — The main battle zone in a southern Philippine city seized by Islamic State supporters resembles a tsunami-hit wasteland, with bullet-riddled mosques and a network of tunnels testifying to their hide-and-kill tactics. Two days after the military declared an end to the five-month conflict in which more than 1,100 people died, scrawny feral dogs and swallows flying above the ruins were among the few signs […]
CLARK, Philippines (AFP) — A five-month battle against Islamic State supporters in the southern Philippines that claimed more than 1,000 lives has ended, the nation’s defense secretary said on Monday. “We now announce the termination of all combat operations in Marawi,” Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana told reporters on the sidelines of a regional security meeting in Clark, a northern Philippine city. Lorenzana said there were no more militants, known locally as coming from the Maute […]
by Ella Ide Agence France-Presse ISCHIA, Italy – The threat of fresh attacks on the West by foreign fighters fleeing the fallen Islamic State stronghold of Raqa is set to dominate a G7 meeting of interior ministers in Italy. The two-day gathering, which kicked off Thursday on the Italian island of Ischia, comes just days after US-backed forces took full control of the jihadists’ de facto Syrian capital. Most foreign fighters are believed to have fled over the […]
by Ahmad al-Rubaye with Sarah Benhaida in Baghdad Agence France-Presse HAWIJA, Iraq – Iraqi forces retook one of the Islamic State group’s last two enclaves in the country on Thursday, overrunning the longtime insurgent bastion of Hawija after a two-week offensive. IS once held one-third of Iraqi territory but it has suffered loss after loss this year and now only controls a slither of land in the Euphrates Valley near the Syrian border. “I announce the liberation of […]
by Rana Moussaoui Agence France Presse BEIRUT, Lebanon (AFP) — The Islamic State group released a recording Thursday of what it says is its leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, calling on jihadists under pressure in Syria and Iraq to “resist” their enemies. In his first alleged message in nearly a year and following reports of his possible death, the elusive jihadist leader called on his supporters to target the “media centres” of countries fighting his group. […]
