CLARK, Pampanga: Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana said on Tuesday that the Philippines has received a “long list” of names of returning fighters, including “a couple of Filipinos” from Iraq and Syria.

“Recently, I got a message from our Embassy in Baghdad and we have this information from Kurdish Intelligence and they have a long list of names of Malaysians and Indonesians fighting in Iraq [including] a couple of Filipinos,” Lorenzana told a joint press conference with Australian Defense Minister Marise Payne here.

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