A FILIPINO is among the list of IS terrorists expected to arrive in the Philippines from the Middle East after the group’s known territories in the war-torn region have dwindled, Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana said on Tuesday.

Lorenzana said the list, which foreign intelligence sources gave him, contained the names of terrorists with Southeast Asian descent and one was identified as a Filipino. Others were Malaysians and Indonesians.

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