Deadly blasts, foggy info

This handout photo released by Armed Forces of the Philippines taken on January 27, 2019, shows debris inside a Catholic Church where two bombs exploded in Jolo, Sulu province on the southern island of Mindanao. -AFP / Armed Forces of the Philippines, Western Mindanao Command

A FOG of war emerged after last week’s twin bombings during Sunday mass at a church in Jolo in the southern Philippines.

The phrase, as defined by Urban Dictionary, means “the unavoidable aspect of war wherein the intelligence gathered is always incomplete to a degree, thereby making any decisions concerning said war a bit ... foggy.”