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Philippines soldiers battle Isis-linked gunmen on Marawi city streets

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TacticalHotdog

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Rubenov said:
They're locals. ISIS-linked, ISIS inspired, whatever. But these are radical Filipino Muslims.
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Among the dead militants, they've found at least 8 foreign fighters: two Malaysians, two Indonesians, two Saudi Arabians, a Yemeni and a Chechen.
http://cnnphilippines.com/news/2017/06/01/8-ISIS-members-in-Marawi-Lorenzana.html

11 soldiers were killed in a friendly airstrike.
https://apnews.com/f214d77e204146f6...n=SocialFlow&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=AP

In a separate incident 2 Army APCs were hit by RPGs and abandoned along with some weapons and equipment. IS fighters took pictures with the captured loot
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Things might have spread beyond Marawi now that explosions and gunfire have been reported at Resorts World Manila, a popular tourist site
http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/01/asia/...la-philippines0636PMStoryLink&linkId=38257051
 
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