How IS ambushed and killed six Philippine Army troops

IS's grenade attack, far-right views in Singapore and more in this latest weekly Southeast Asia counterterrorism summary.

Here’s the last seven days’ headlines and links:

IS catches Philippine Army off-guard
This is how IS killed the six Philippine Army troops: “The team rested after a long hike, but failed to spread out as they should have. Militants shadowing them took advantage of that mistake, crept to almost 20 meters and laid out deadly fire at the unsuspecting soldiers."

Philippines tightening security amid possible IS retaliations
The Philippine police and military have reportedly tightened security at the border of Lanao del Sur and Lanao del Norte southern provinces to thwart possible retaliatory attacks by a pro-Islamic State local terror group.

Two defence volunteers killed in southern Thailand
Two defence volunteers providing security for teachers were killed by an unidentified armed group in southern Thailand.

Six Philippine soldiers, three IS terrorists killed in Mindanao clashes
Six soldiers and three alleged terrorists were killed in a series of encounters between the Philippine military and a local Islamic State terror group in the southern province of Lanao del Norte on Feb. 18, said the Army. 

EXCLUSIVE: ‘Foreign Islamic State spokesman - possibly Syrian - speaks from Mindanao’

Ex-Malaysian NGO official bewildered on FBI terror watchlist
An Ex-Malaysian NGO leader is bewildered to be on the FBI's terrorist watchlist. Two others on the list have also been publicly named.

IS terror financing Filipina
The recently arrested terror financing Filipina had received money from sources in Malaysia, Turkey, Jordan, Indonesia, Qatar and Saudi Arabia before chanelling them to Abu Sayyaf Group members, Philippine investigators said.

IS-linked firearms dealer nabbed
An illegal firearms dealer was arrested in Maguindanao del Sur, southern Philippines, for allegedly selling weapons to ISIS-Maute Group and the BIFF.

Torture by US key issue in Bali bombing plea deal
How prisoners were treated has complicated prosecutors’ efforts to hold trials in the Sept. 11 and the U.S.S. Cole bombing cases at Guantánamo

EXCLUSIVE: ISIS leader may still be at large in Mindanao

IS-linked meth peddlers arrested
Four meth peddlers allegedly linked to the IS-Maute Group and BIFF terror group were nabbed in two southern Philippine provinces.

Far-right views in Southeast Asia?
How two Singapore cases may reflect ‘anti-woke’ movement’s slow creep

IS’s grenade attack on Philippine Army outpost, three troops hurt
Suspected pro-Islamic State terrorists threw a hand grenade at a Philippine Army outpost, injuring two soldiers and a militiaman, in the southern province of Maguindanao del Sur.