Philippine security forces were on alert Saturday for possible reprisal attacks after arresting a key leader of an Islamic State-linked militant ...
15 Aug 2020 04:23PMMANILA: Philippine security forces were on alert Saturday for possible reprisal attacks after arresting a key leader of an Islamic State-linked militant group accused of kidnapping and beheading several foreigners.
Listed by the United States as a terrorist organisation, Abu Sayyaf is a loose network of militants blamed for the country's worst terror attacks as well as kidnappings of foreign tourists and Christian missionaries. In 2017 Susukan's group also beheaded Jurgen Kantner, who was abducted from his yacht off the southern Philippines the previous year, said military spokesman Brigadier-General Edgard Arevalo.
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