ISIS not linked to ThaiMuslim groups

The militant groups in the deep South held a different ideology to ISIS and were unlikely to join the terror group, he said. Detnarong also confirmed it was the policy of the government to solve the southern unrest by promoting a better understanding with local residents.
Detnarong’s comments were in response to reports that militants in the Philippines had formed a Southeast Asian faction of ISIS.
The Special Branch Police Division’s intelligence team was carrying out ongoing intelligencegathering activities at the French embassy in Bangkok and the embassies of other inconflict countries, he said, but so far no movement had been detected, he said.