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MANILA, Philippines (AFP) — An Islamist plot to bomb a Manila shopping mall as US President Donald Trump and other world leaders arrived in the city for a summit has been foiled, Philippine police said Friday. Three alleged members of the Abu Sayyaf militant group were arrested on November 10, authorities said, a day before leaders began descending on the capital for the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit and other meetings. “A terror […]
Video courtesy: COURTESY SITE INTEL GROUP / Reuters (REUTERS) Islamist militants in the Philippines announce a new deadline of April 25 for the execution of three foreign captives and a Filipino, but scale back their ransom demand in a video posted on social media.
Senators began their own investigation as to what really happened during the bloody dispersal operation of 5,000 farmers who barricaded the Cotabato-Davao highway in Kidapawan City wherein three farmers died and scores injured.
Almost 1,000 foreign fighters from the Asia-Pacific region have joined ISIS with possibility of more joining. To stop foreign fighters from joining the militant group, the United Nations recently adopted a resolution to that effect.
Casualties reach up to 500 in the worse attack in five years by a militant group in Nigeria.
