 Its budget for July 2017–June 2018 is US$57,653,700, representing less than 1% of the UN peacekeeping budget.In March 2013, 21 Philippine peacekeepers were held by a group of Syrian rebels who call themselves the Yarmouk Martyrs Brigade; they were then released, and returned to their base via Jordan and Israel on 12 March.On 10 May 2013, the Philippine Secretary of Foreign Affairs, Albert del Rosario announced his intentions to pull out their contingent of UN peacekeepers from the UNDOF zone.