A top leader of an ISIS, Isnilon Hapilon, who is on the United States' list of 'Most Wanted Terrorists' has been wounded in military airstrikes. He has a $5-million bounty on his head from the US government for his involvement in the 2001 kidnapping of three Americans in the Philippines.


Hapilon has been recognised by IS as its leader in Southeast Asia and belongs to Abu Sayyaf, a kidnap-for-ransom gang based in the southern Philippines.

Philipine Defence Secretary Delfin Lorenzana said Hapilon was 'seriously wounded' in air strikes on Wednesday in the town of Butig, 500 miles south of Manila.

He said: 'As of Friday, Hapilon is still being carried by four men in a makeshift stretcher moving northeast of Butig. Troops are in hot pursuit supported by ground artillery and air support.'