The setting up of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) was the “game-changer” for peace in the southern Philippines, the Philippine National Police said as martial law lapsed with the end 2019.
Despite the IS’ losses in the Middle East, it has been able to recruit fighters and employ violent tactics in Southeast Asia, says Kenneth Yeo.
Security forces foiled an alleged plot to bomb a Catholic cathedral in Basilan province in the southern Philippines and arrested two suspected Abu Sayyaf militants tasked with carrying out the attack, police said Thursday.
Optimistic that the new regional government will help them improve their lives, 16 members of Islamic State-linked Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters surrendered to military authorities in Maguindanao on Saturday
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