Credit to Author: besguerra| Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2019 02:57:33 +0000
CAMP SIONGCO, MAGUINDANAO — Government forces pursuing Islamic State-linked Bangsamoro rebels on Thursday found guns kept in a very unlikely place – a comfort room in Datu Piang, Maguindanao, the military here said.
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Read moreCredit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2019 05:25:56 +0000
President Donald Trump has predicted the Islamic State group will have lost by next week all territory it once controlled in Iraq and Syria.
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Read moreCredit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2019 12:49:21 +0000
Abu Sayyaf sub-leader Hatib Sawadjaan is the recognized overall leader of the Islamic State-linked groups in the Philippines.
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Credit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2019 06:12:42 +0000
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump is expected to declare near-total triumph over the Islamic State group in Syria in his State of the Union address, but U.S. defense officials are increasingly fearful that the militants are simply biding their time until the Americans leave the battlefield as planned.
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Read moreCredit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2019 08:35:19 +0000
DND Secretary Delfin Lorenzana is convinced the January 27 twin blasts at a Catholic cathedral in Jolo, Sulu was a case of suicide bombing.
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Read moreCredit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2019 08:50:34 +0000
King Felipe VI of Spain on Wednesday visited special forces helping Iraq fight jihadists, a diplomat said.
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Credit to Author: Simon Cottee| Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2019 13:49:22 +0000
When captured British jihadists are asked what they miss most about home, they usually have the same answer.
Read moreCredit to Author: cbibe| Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2019 00:32:00 +0000
Director General Oscar Albayalde flew to Jolo, where twin blasts left at least 20 people dead and over a hundred injured.
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Read moreCredit to Author: hniitsu| Date: Tue, 01 Jan 2019 21:24:36 +0000
Military and police officials are looking at an Islamic State-inspired group as possibly behind the blast that killed two people and injured more than 30 others outside a shopping mall here on New Year’s Eve.
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Read moreCredit to Author: jvicente| Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2018 08:23:38 +0000
Suspected militants linked to Islamic State detonated a homemade bomb outside a shopping mall in the southern city of Cotabato on Monday, leaving two dead and dozens of civilians wounded, days before the holding of plebiscite for a law that will give Muslims full control over an autonomous homeland.
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