MANILA, Philippines (AFP) — The widow of a slain Islamist militant leader will be charged for allegedly using social media to recruit Islamic State sympathizers to join a five-month siege of a southern city, Philippine authorities said Friday. Hundreds of local and foreign gunmen who had pledged allegiance to IS rampaged through Marawi, the principal Islamic city in the mainly Catholic Philippines, starting in May — sparking the nation’s longest urban war that claimed more […]
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NBI arrests woman recruiting terrorists through social media
(Eagle News) – The National Bureau of Investigation has arrested a woman who allegedly recruits foreigners to join terrorist groups in Mindanao. Karen Aiza Hamidon, 36, was arrested in her house in Taguig City last October 11 by operatives of the NBI Counter Terrorism Division. The NBI found 296 posts made by the suspect. It said they were inciting rebellion in Marawi City.





