The United States is scaling down a taskforce that has been training Philippine troops to hunt down local al-Qaeda extremists, Defense Secretary Voltaire Gazmin said on Thursday.
The group of 500-600 American servicemen rotating through the strife-torn southern Philippines was cut back to 200 starting this year, Gazmin told reporters.
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