Some 2,300 Filipinos in Syria are urged to immediately avail of the Philippine government's mandatory repatriation program there amid the start of US air strikes against a Syrian extremist group.

Charles Jose, spokesman for the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA), said in a text message on Tuesday that crisis alert level 4, or mandatory repatriation, is still raised on the whole of Syria.

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