By Patrick B. Johnston & Colin P. Clarke, Foreign Policy: “The Islamic State is already thinking about how to regroup. The Philippines is a long way from the group’s birthplace in the Middle East — but the jihadis have already seized and held a city there for three months, and exerted a grim cost on the country’s security forces to retake it.”
BY BONG S SARMIENTO
Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters, an IS-allied militant group, threatens to launch an urban warfare assault similar to the siege of Marawi City