[Al Jazeera] Troops in the Philippines have killed four communist rebels during festivities in the eastern part of the country, a regional police spokesperson said.The slain fighters included a regional commander of the New People's Army, the armed wing of the rebel group known as the Communist Party of the Philippines, police superintendent Nonito Marquez said on Friday.
No casualties were reported on the military side, Marquez said.
The soldiers were on patrol when they encountered about 30 rebels in a village in the province of Sorsogon, 383 kilometres south-east of Manila, he said.
The firefight marked the latest clash between communist rebels and government forces since President Rodrigo Duterte scrapped peace talks after a series of attacks by the rebels.
Government troops are also fighting in the southern Philippines against hundreds of fighters allied with the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
of Iraq and the Levant group (ISIS, also known as ISIS) who have laid siege to Marawi City since May 23.