...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....
turbans were killed in
s by Philippine troops in a southern province where the rebel group launched a Christmas Day attack, a military front man said on Tuesday.Members of the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters
...a MILF splinter group aligned with the Islamic State...
(BIFF) attacked Datu Unsay town in Maguindanao on Monday, burning two houses and prompting residents to flee, said Captain Arvin Encinas, front man for the 6th Infantry Division.
The latest military operation follows last month's shelling of BIFF button men in support of ground attacks in an area of marshland between the provinces of Maguindanao and Cotabato, about 170 km (106 miles) from Marawi City.
The shellings took place as the military pushes on with a new offensive after the country's biggest urban battle in decades in Marawi, which was occupied for several months by Islamic State loyalists including BIFF fighters.
The turbans' occupation of Marawi and their dogged resistance spread alarm in the region about the rise of extremism and radical aspirations to create an Islamic State caliphate.