Philippines arrests Islamic State terror funding ‘facilitator’ that was on US terror watch list

Myrna Mabanza was arrested near the town of Indanan in the southern Sulu island group, a stronghold of an IS-linked armed militant group called Abu Sayyaf, according to a statement from Manila’s Anti-Terrorism Council.

The US treasury department in 2018 listed Philippines-based Mabanza as a “facilitator for terror”, saying she supported the Philippine branch of ISIS, an alternate name for IS.

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