COTABATO CITY—The military announced the arrest by soldiers of seven terror suspects belonging to a breakaway Moro armed group with links to Islamic State on Tuesday (Dec. 8).
The arrested men were members of Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF), a group of armed men who broke off from Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) and linked up with IS, an international terror network.
Lt. Gen. Corleto Vinluan Jr., chief of the military’s Western Mindanao Command (Wesmincom), said soldiers from the 40th Infantry Battalion intercepted the terror suspects past noon at a village here.
The arrest came as the military and police were hunting down BIFF mem…
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