(MENAFN) Philippine Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana declared that over 10 foreign terrorists hiding in the southern Philippines.
Lorenzana added that his evaluation is that many terrorists how travelled to the Middles East to take part in the Islamic State (IS) militants have returned to their respective countries.
Analysts revealed that a lot of IS members wanted to depart the Middle East after losing its key strongholds in Syria and Iraq.
"While (IS militants) are losing their territories there (in Iraq and Syria), they are fleeing, they are going back to their own countries. Now, if we have Filipinos fighting there in Syria, then we might expect them to be coming back here," according to Lorenzana.
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