US worried over ISIS ‘ties’ with Moro rebels

UNITED STATES OFFICIALS are closely monitoring reports that Islamic fundamentalists from the Middle East with possible ties to the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) have established links with local Muslim militants, according to Ambassador Philip Goldberg.

ISIS is the extremist group that has overrun large parts of Syria and neighboring Iraq and that, together with other insurgent factions, according to a recent United Nations report, has committed war crimes, “including murder, extortion, execution without due process, torture, hostage-taking” and violations of international law such as recruiting children and rape.