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MANILA, Philippines (AFP) — Residents of a southern Philippine city where Islamic State supporters waged a brutal five-month battle began returning home on Tuesday, but gunfire greeted them as soldiers scoured devastated neighborhoods for remaining militants. Defense chiefs announced on Monday that the fighting, which claimed more than 1,100 lives and left the eastern half of Marawi in ruins, had ended following a final clash in a mosque in which dozens of gunmen were killed. […]
MARAWI, Philippines (AFP) — Philippine troops Sunday bombed militants loyal to the Islamic State group who have held out for over four months in a southern city and the military said the conflict would be over “very soon”. The army previously set a target of Sunday to end the fighting in Marawi, which it said has killed more than 1,000 people. Troops have missed previous deadlines to flush out the militants whom authorities said […]
MANILA, Philippines (AFP) — A Filipino doctor accused of wiring money for a foiled jihadist plot targeting New York’s subway and Times Square rejects the allegations and has vowed to fight US extradition, his lawyer said Tuesday. Russell Salic and two others have been charged with involvement in the plan to stage the attacks in the name of the Islamic State group during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan in 2016. On Tuesday, his […]
A Filipino suspect in a thwarted jihadist plot targeting New York’s subway and Times Square will face legal proceedings seeking his extradition to the United States, Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre II said on Sunday. Russell Salic and two others have been charged with involvement in the plan to carry out the attacks in the name of the Islamic State group during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan in 2016. Salic was arrested in the Philippines […]
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AFP) — Malaysian police said Saturday they have detained four locals and four foreigners—three Filipinos and one Albanian— suspected of militant activities, the latest arrest of alleged Islamic extremists in the Muslim-majority country. They were detained between September 27 and October 6 in the states of Sabah, Selangor and Perak, police said. Fears have been growing in Malaysia that Muslim militants are ramping up their activities, inspired by the Islamic State (IS) […]
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 […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — US forces carried out six “precision air strikes” against an Islamic State camp in Libya, killing 17 people, the US Africa Command said Sunday. The command said the air strikes were conducted on Friday, in coordination with Libya’s Government of National Accord.
President Rodrigo Duterte says he is willing to open the country’s borders to Indonesia and Malaysia to fight Islamic State-linked militants in the south. Duterte said he will meet his Indonesian and Malaysian counterparts to discuss the creation of a task force against Islamist militants in the region, notorious for kidnappings, be-headings and clashes with the military. “In all probability, it will be a joint task force, and i will open my borders to the […]
(Eagle News) — Abdullah Maute is dead. “(He) is already killed. Chatter over Telegram indicates he is killed,” Lieutenant General Carlito Galvez, chief of the Western Mindanao Command, said in a press conference in Marawi City on Monday, September 4. He was referring to the application the Maute group reportedly used to communicate with the Islamic State, the international terrorist group to which they pledged allegiance. Galvez said the military translated some messages in Arabic. […]
(Eagle News) – Around 100 Islamic State-inspired militants have been spotted in Buldon, Maguindanao. The Moro Islamic Liberation Front confirmed this in an online news report, after President Rodrigo Duterte warned of a possible spillover of the armed conflict in Marawi to that area. Duterte made the revelation after he said he was mulling lifting martial law across Mindanao earlier, but preferred to adopt a “let’s see” attitude because of the development instead. “If it […]
SYDNEY, Australia (AFP) — Australia Tuesday offered to help train the Philippine military to tackle Islamic militants terrorizing parts of the country, calling the threat “deeply concerning.” Philippine forces have been besieging militants in Marawi for almost 100 days. But the gunmen, flying the Islamic State group’s black flag, have defied military assaults including airstrikes and artillery barrages. Australia, which has an extensive defense cooperation program with Manila, has already deployed two high-tech AP-3C Orion aircraft for […]
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AFP) — Islamic State group fighters began evacuating a Syrian-Lebanese border region Monday under an unprecedented deal to end three years of jihadist presence there, Syrian state television and Hezbollah said. The evacuation comes a week into a Lebanese army campaign against the group on the Lebanese side of the border, coinciding with a joint Syrian army and Hezbollah offensive on neighbouring Syrian territory. Under the evacuation deal, several hundred jihadists and their […]
