Tens of thousands of people from minority groups have fled their homes due to the militants' advance.
Evidence to back the claim has yet to surface, with most human rights groups having fled the area.
Since August, approximately seven hundred thousand members of the predominantly Muslim group have fled into neighboring Bangladesh.
Christians, a far larger group, have fled Iraq by the thousands, and even Sunni and Shiite Muslims, who live among millions of their fellows, remain fearful of religious and sectarian fanatics.
Now the group has fled again, she said, hoping to make it safely back home.
Late Friday, Raul Hernandez, a Philippine foreign affairs spokesman, suggested that after the gun battle, some members of the armed group had fled the fighting and some had been arrested, but he did not provide further details.
She is seeking to pull votes from Mexico's left, by building coalitions with groups that have fled the party's machine over the last 15 years.
Nearly 360,000 people have been displaced by the rebel group and have fled to eastern DRC, southern Sudan and the Central African Republic.
Saudi Arabia's relations with the government in Naypyidaw are complicated by a political issue regarding the status of thousands of stateless Muslim Burmese refugees from the Rohingya ethnic group, who have fled to the Gulf state in recent decades.
There are widespread shortages in medical staff, as they have become increasingly and explicitly targeted by armed groups, and many have fled the country.
