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A suspected high-ranking official of the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF) and 11 alleged members of the terrorist group were killed in a military operation in Datu Saudi Ampatuan, Maguindanao del Sur on Monday, April 22, 2023.

The BARMM hosts the smallest number of Christians nationwide. About 91% of the region's inhabitants are Muslims, while around 5.3% or 261,963 individuals identify as Catholics.

The military says the BIFF-Karialan faction was not aligned with the Dawlah Islamiya until it joined forces with a more radical BIFF group in carrying out an ambush that killed soldiers in Maguindanao del Sur

Sep 30, 2023 - Syria, October 2023 Monthly Forecast : Security Council Report

US troops captured two ISIS leaders in separate raids carried out in northern Syria on Sept. 23 and Sept. 28.

The raid is the latest against the Islamic State's network in Iraq and Syria, which has been weakened since it lost its physical caliphate in 2019 but continues to persist.

His capture on Saturday increases the chance that U.S. counterterrorism operations there will be able to target additional members of the group.

U.S. military officials on Monday announced the capture of a man believed to be an official involved in the operations of the Islamic State terrorist group in Syria.

U.S. raid in Syria captures ISIS operative

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military said Monday it had captured an operator for the Islamic State extremist group during a helicopter raid in northern Syria. The operator, Abu Halil al-Fad’ani, “was assessed to have relationships throughout the ISIS network in the region,” U.S. Central Command said in a statement. His capture on Saturday increases […]