KUALA LUMPUR: The battlefield deaths of two leaders of an Islamic State (IS) alliance in the southern Philippines could thrust a Malaysian who trained at an al-Qaeda camp in Afghanistan as the militant group’s new regional ”emir”, experts and officials say.
Intelligence officials describe Malaysian Mahmud Ahmad as a financier and recruiter, who helped put together the coalition of pro-IS fighters that stormed Marawi City in May.
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