ZAMBOANGA CITY: Security forces captured on Thursday a Filipino woman wanted by the United States and the United Nations for her links to the Islamic State (IS) also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), and its local counterpart, the Dawlah Islamiya or ISIS-Philippines, officials said.

Officials said Myrna Ajijul Mabanza was tracked down by operatives from the Armed Forces of the Philippines, the Philippine National Police and the National Intelligence Coordinating Agency, including the Presidential Anti-Organized Crime Commission in her hideout in Pasil in the town of Indanan, Sulu.