Tag: Major Gen. Domingo Tutaan

Syrian militants surround camp of Filipino U.N. peacekeepers

(Reuters) — Syrian militants have surrounded an encampment of U.N. peacekeepers, Philippine armed forces spokesperson Domingo Tutaan said on Friday (August 29). Militants fighting the Syrian army have detained 43 U.N. peacekeepers from Fiji in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, and trapped 81 troops from the Philippines, the United Nations said on Thursday (August 28). The 43 troops from the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force(UNDOF) were detained in the vicinity of Al Qunaytirah and the 81 peacekeepers from thePhilippines have been restricted to their positions in the vicinity of Ar […]