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| Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte |
MANILA, Feb. 18 (Xinhua) -- Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on Saturday ordered the military and police to continuously contain the Islamic State (IS) threat in the country.
Speaking to the alumni of the Philippine Military Academy (PMA) during its annual homecoming in Baguio City, north of Manila, Duterte stressed the need to secure the southern Philippine region of Mindanao from the Islamic militants who wish to establish a caliphate in the ancestral homeland of the Muslim minority in the largely Catholic Philippines.
Duterte ordered government troops and police force to use all available assets and resources to defeat IS militants.
"This is the only way to secure Mindanao," he said.
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