Published on 12:00 AM, June 30, 2019

IS-claimed bombing kills 5 in Philippines

Five people including three soldiers were killed on Friday in a bombing targeting an elite army unit in the Philippines’s restive south, which the Islamic State claimed was a suicide attack, authorities and experts said. The military said the kidnap-for-ransom group and IS-affiliate Abu Sayyaf was likely behind the midday blast on the island of Jolo, which also left nine other soldiers wounded.