Not aware of that one. We have a long but low profile history in various UN and "allied" missions but usually far away including Middle East. Occasionally we fuck up at an individual level as in Namibia. The nearest was Cambodia. But Teo announcing this was clear change of policy or he was not aware. He did "accidentally" did reveal that his men got hold of secret minutes of WP CEC. So he has form. We will now be targets and in the same week a singaporean was kidnapped in Manila albeit by a criminal gang.
If pinoy army now getting the upper hand, that only meant the local isis fighters are badly led by incompetent commanders who never read about chairman Mao classic tactic of “敌进我退,敌驻我扰,敌疲我打,敌退我追”