ROHAN GUNARATNA WRITES FROM SINGAPORE (courtesy of the Pacific Forum CSIS) – The so-called Islamic State (IS) is likely to create IS branches in the Philippines and Indonesia in 2016. Although the Indonesian military pre-empted IS plans to declare a satellite state of the “caliphate” in eastern Indonesia, IS is…
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