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2021-03-24 Southeast Asia
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Philippines: 14 Pro-IS Militants Killed in Southern Battles
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[BenarNews] Philippine government forces killed 14 suspected pro-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....
murderous Moslems in days of festivities in the restive southern province of Maguindanao, the military said Tuesday.
The fighting broke out on March 17 after more than 50 members of the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters
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...a MILF splinter group aligned with the Islamic State...
(BIFF), under the command of Ustadz Karialan (alias Imam Minimbang), occupied a village in the remote town of Datu Saudi Ampatuan, regional military front man Lt. Col. John Paul Baldomar said.
"Fourteen murderous Moslems were confirmed dead in the festivities," he told BenarNews. "Their bodies were recovered and we have already some of their names."
Troops and civilians also reported that 25 murderous Moslems were believed to have been injured but escaped while two soldiers were maimed, he said. The fighting displaced 5,000 people.
Villagers told authorities that gunnies had been spotted amassing in the area, Baldomar said, adding that the button men fired at troops sent to the village to check on the reports, touching off days of shootouts.
"The fighting continued until Sunday, but clearing operations are continuing so the residents can return to their homes safely," Baldomar said
Troops recovered seven homemade bombs the murderous Moslems allegedly left behind in houses they had occupied, he said.
Days before the festivities, BIFF button men had harassed an outpost manned jointly by soldiers and members of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), said Col. Pedro Balisi Jr., commander of the Army’s 1st Mechanized Infantry Brigade.
The MILF is the country’s largest former separatist group, which signed a peace deal with the government. It controls an autonomous region in the south.
The BIFF are former MILF fighters who had opposed that peace deal. Members pledged allegiance to the Islamic State (IS) hard boy group, but did not send fighters to join the siege of southern Marawi City by pro-IS members in 2017. The five-month battle killed more than 1,200 fighters, soldiers, police and civilians.
PREVIOUS ATTACKS
In January, suspected BIFF murderous Moslems carried out two roadside kaboomings in southern North Cotabato and Maguindanao provinces that killed at least three people and left scores injured.
In 2019, BIFF was blamed for a series of kabooms, including on a town market and at a restaurant in the town of Isulan that injured eight and 18 respectively.
The most recent deadly shootouts occurred at the same time troops were rescuing four Indonesians who had been held by Abu Sayyaf
...also known as al-Harakat al-Islamiyya, an Islamist terror group based in Jolo, Basilan and Zamboanga. Since its inception in the early 1990s, the group has carried out bombings, kidnappings, murders, head choppings, and extortion in their uniquely Islamic attempt to set up an independent Moslem province in the Philippines. Abu Sayyaf forces probably number less than 300 cadres. The group is closely allied with remnants of Indonesia's Jemaah Islamiya and has loose ties with MILF and MNLF who sometimes provide cannon fodder...
members for more than a year after being kidnapped from their fishing boat in Malaysian waters in January 2020. The fourth victim, a teenager, was rescued on Sunday, three days after his compatriots were rescued from a boat that had capsized off a small island called Pasigan.
Tuesday’s announcement in the Philippines came on the two-year anniversary of the day that the last IS bastion in Iraq and Syria fell to an international coalition of forces. The coalition, joined by local partners, captured the stronghold in Eastern Syria’s Deir ez-Zor province and arrested 800 fighters. 
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