[GMANETWORK] At least 11 members of the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters ...a MILF splinter group aligned with the Islamic State... (BIFF) have been killed in air strikes launched by the military at the bandit group's known lairs in two villages in Datu Salibo, Maguindanao.
Capt. Ervin Encinas, spokesperson of the Philippine Army's 6th Infantry Division, said the offensive's target was the group of a certain Kumander Bungos of the BIFF and three foreign terrorists.
Encinas said several other BIFF members were also injured in the air strikes, which started on Monday afternoon.
He said the group of Kumander Bungos has encampments in barangays Andavit and Tee.
Local officials said that at least 300 families have been forced to evacuate due to the military's offensive.
Col. Diosdado Carreon, commander of the 601st Infantry Brigade, said senior Jemaah Islamiyah member and known bomber Mohammad Ali alias Muawiyah is among the foreign turbans included in Kumander Bungos' group.
It can be recalled that the military had claimed that Ali was killed in an assault in 2012, but later took back the announcement and said that the international terrorist was alive.
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[AA.TR] A new group that has pledged allegiance to ISIS is responsible for a plot to carry out attacks on Indonesian security forces, authorities said Monday.
The police chief of Central Sulawesi province told Anadolu Agency that nine suspected holy warriors incarcerated Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! last week were affiliated to the group based in South Sulawesi’s thriving provincial capital Makassar City.
"This group has declared allegiance to ISIS," Brig. Gen. Rudy Sufahriadi said, referring to ISIS by another acronym.
Sufahriadi described the new group as not being related to the Sulawesi-based East Indonesia Mujahideen -- whose hideout in the jungles of troubled Poso Regency has been the target of a months-long military operation.
During the capture of the nine suspects Friday, police reportedly seized fertilizer, sulfur and nails they suspect would have been used in assembling explosives to attack local police and army headquarters.
National police front man Insp. Gen. Boy Rafli Amar said two of those arrested are minors.
"We are still investigating their role in the terror plan," he was quoted as saying by detik.com.
Amar also revealed that anti-terror squads had arrested two suspected holy warriors believed to have connections with a bomber who was rubbed out by police last month in West Java’s thriving provincial capital Bandung City.
The men are accused of planning attacks on several cop shoppes in the city "to take Dire Revenge on the police for the arrest of their friends", according to Amar.
Police believe the three belong to Jamaah Ansharut Daulah, a terror network that includes several bad boy groups that have pledged allegiance to ISIS.
[PNA/Xinhua] Malaysian police said on Monday they have arrested seven suspects, including five Filipinos and one Malaysian immigration officer, in connection with Daesh
The first Filipino suspect, who has permanent residence in Malaysia, was found to have provided funds to Malaysian fugitives "Dr. Mahmud Ahmad" and Mohamed Joraimee Awang Raimee, who joined Daesh in southern Philippines as recruiters for the terror group.
Khalid Abu Bakar, inspector general of the police, said that another two were believed to have assisted the transit of three Indonesian Daesh militants to southern Philippines through the Malaysian state of Sabah.
Khalid said the suspects were arrested in a series of counter-terrorism operations between Wednesday and Sunday in Sabah and Selangor.
This was not the first time the police unveiled links between Sabah and the southern Philippines. The Malaysian police busted a four-man terror cell in Sabah in January, in which the police found that the cell helped new recruits of Daesh-linked militants from Malaysia, Indonesia and the ethnic Rohingya community in Bangladesh to transit via Sabah to Marawi City in Mindanao.
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[Inquirer] A day after Philippine government negotiators met with their Maoist militant counterparts, New People's Army rebels burned a bus in Mindanao and injured five policemen in an ambush in northern Luzon.
On Monday, suspected NPA militants torched on Monday a Davao City-bound bus in Makilala, North Cotabato. Another group of militants injured five policemen in an ambush on a convoy headed towards a police station that was attacked on Sunday night in Malibcong town.
Police spokesman Roneo Galgo said suspected NPA rebels flagged down the bus at Makilala town on Monday morning. The bus driver, said six militants boarded the bus, introduced themselves as NPA members and directed him to drive toward Barangay San Vicente.
The driver said, "One of the suspects drew a pistol and told me to divert the vehicle to the secluded area toward San Vicente village.The suspects ordered us to vacate the bus and look for a safe place before they set it on fire."
Galgo said the attackers belonged to the NPA's Guerrilla Front 72 operating in Makilala and in Bansalan, Davao del Sur province. The attack came five days after NPA militants killed four policemen in an ambush in Bansalan.
Four policemen were injured when their vehicle on its way to Bansalan hit an explosive device, followed by a burst of gunfire. A police spokesman said investigators did not know if the attackers were the same militants who raided a house serving as temporary police station in Malibcong.
Five Malibcong policemen engaged 30 armed men in a 10-minute firefight on Sunday evening. The gun battle stopped when town elders intervened, allowing the five to retreat to the house of Mayor Romando Bacuyag. But the militants managed to ransack the temporary police station, and fled with police-issued weapons.
The attacks did not violate any ceasefire agreement between the government and the communist-led National Democratic Front of the Philippines, since no cessation of hostilities has yet been declared.
In a joint statement issued on Saturday, government and NDFP representatives agreed that indefinite unilateral ceasefire declarations would be issued before the fourth round of talks in the first week of April.
The two sides are scheduled to meet in Oslo during the first week of April to resume the next round of talks, which were scuttled last month. The insurgents lifted their unilateral ceasefire on February 10 after accusing the government of failing to release all political prisoners and the military of deploying troops in rebel-held areas. The Duterte administration responded by scrapping its own unilateral ceasefire and suspending the peace talks.
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[PNA/Xinhua] Malaysian police said on Monday they have arrested seven suspects, including five Filipinos and one Malaysian immigration officer, in connection with Daesh
[Inquirer] A day after Philippine government negotiators met with their Maoist militant counterparts, New People's Army rebels burned a bus in Mindanao and injured five policemen in an ambush in northern Luzon.
