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Southeast Asia
Two Suspected Pro-IS Militants, Govt Soldier Die in Southern Philippine Battle
2022-03-02
[BenarNews] Two Filipino members of an Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
-linked turban group and a soldier were killed during a battle in the southern Philippines on Tuesday in which government warplanes bombed suspected bad boy positions as part of a "major operation," the military said.

The military offensive targeted members of Daulah Islamiyah-Maute Group bad boy faction, said Lt. Gen. Alfredo Rosario Jr., head of the Western Mindanao Command (WestMinCom) headquartered in Zamboanga city.
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