ISIS kills several Philippine troops in Marawi City

A small garrison of ISIS insurgents claimed that the militants has killed dozens of the Philippine troops, as they are putting up resistance against the Philippine Army in the embattled city of Marawi.

The ISIS’s mouthpeiece, Amaq Agency, released on Wednesday its fifth ever video covering events in Marawi, showing plenty of army corpses along with weapons recently seized by Abu Sayyaf and Maute, two militant groups that have sworn allegiance to the ISIS leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi, Al Masdar reported.

The report came despite that fact that the Philippines’ army forces are being outnumbered at least 100-to-1, compare to the ISIS-linked militant holed up in Marawi.

Meanwhile, official sources in the Philippine Army claim the total ISIS death toll has surpassed 500, backing up earlier claims by Al-Masdar News which were heavily disputed when the crisis began over two months ago.

Between 120 and 60 ISIS insurgents still remain bogged down around four neighborhoods in the city center where the hardline militants have established entrenched positions and sniper nests after booby-trapping most of the frontline.

Source: Farsnews