ZAMBOANGA CITY: Local Islamic State (IS) fighters have declared a total war on the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), which signed a peace deal with the Philippine government in 2014.

The recent attack by the militants on the former secessionist group in the southern Philippine province of Maguindanao del Sur is not the first.

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