“Suicide bombing is not something that we’ve seen in the region here in Southeast Asia until very, very recently, and we are concerned about groups like ISIS [Islamic State of Iraq and Syria] and sympathizers of ISIS emulating what they see in places like Syria and places like Afghanistan,” U.S. State Department Ambassador-at-Large Nathan Sales told reporters during a telephone interview in Manila.
To address the terror threat, Sales said the United States, together with its allies like the Philippines, is pursuing a “whole-of-government” approach by boosting the capability of crisis response teams in the entire region. “We’re also working to boost border security. We have to stop terrorists from being able to travel, move their fighters, move their money, move their weapons,” Sales said.
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