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QUEZON City, Philippines (Eagle News) — The Philippine Air Force (PAF) used its air assets as the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) resumed its airstrikes against the remaining Islamist militants in Marawi City. It is now the 43rd day after President Rodrigo Duterte declared martial law in Mindanao following the Maute Group attack on May 23. At past 6 a.m., fighter jets of the PAF started dropping bombs in Maute-held territories in Marawi City.
(Eagle News) — Three suspected supporters of the Maute group were arrested by authorities in a raid in Cagayan de Oro on Wednesday. Members of the Martial Law Special Action Group apprehended Monaliza Solaiman Romato, Gazim Mantawazi Abdullah, and Tahera Romato Taher in a raid in a house in Aluba in Barangay Macasandig. The authorities were armed with a search warrant when they raided the house owned by Irene Romato Idris, believed to be a financier […]
MARAWI CITY, Lanao del Norte (Eagle News) – Nabawi na ng militar ang Dansalan College na ginamit bilang stronghold ng Maute Terror Group sa Marawi City. Isang buwan ding inokupahan ng mga terorista ang nasabing eskwelahan. Sinunog pa nila ang ilang bahagi nito nang una nilang salakayin ang lungsod. Ang eskwelahan ay nagsilbing pwesto sa mga sniper at mga humahawak ng machine gun sa panig ng mga terorista. Ayon kay Task Force Marawi Spokesperson Lt. […]
(Eagle News) – The European Union said it was giving P48 million (850,000 euros) of financial aid to help the thousands of civilians displaced by the ongoing fight in Marawi. The financial assistance–coursed through the European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (ECHO)– will be used to provide for the necessities, including food, water, and health care, of over 50,000 people. “This grant from the EU will support the delivery of immediate life-saving assistance […]
(Eagle News) — Two of the six Vietnamese who were kidnapped by the Abu Sayyaf group from Basilan last year have been found dead, a military official said on Wednesday. Capt. Joan Petinglay, spokesperson of the military’s Western Mindanao Command, said in a radio interview that the decapitated heads of the two were found alongside their cadavers in Barangay Tumahubong, Sumisip, Basilan, at 5:40 a.m. “Most likely, desperate measures itong ginawa nila (Abu Sayyaf) ngayon,” […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte said he “respect(ed)” the dissenting opinions of some Supreme Court justices with respect to the declaration of martial law in Mindanao. He also noted, however, that “it (was) a very shortsighted thing,” considering the fact that Marawi, where local terrorists inspired by the Islamic State launched offensives on May 23 in a bid to carve out a province for the international terrorist group, was located in Central Mindanao. “You have […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte assured the man whose family of five was murdered in their house in San Jose del Monte that justice would be done, noting that criminals had nowhere to hide in the country. “Kahit saan ka magtago, I will catch up with you. Pag kriminal ka, mahirap buhayin ang kriminal. Isang kriminal dito kinakailangan may relatives sila sa kabilang bayan,” Duterte said in an interview with reporters after he visited […]
MOSCOW, Russia (AFP) — Russia and China on Tuesday called for a simultaneous freeze on North Korean nuclear and missile tests and military exercises by the United States as tensions ratcheted up on the peninsula. “The two sides propose that the DPRK (North Korea) as a voluntary political decision declares a moratorium on testing nuclear explosive devices and ballistic rocket launches, and the US and South Korea refrain from carrying out large-scale joint exercises,” their […]
Filipino social workers taught evacuees fleeing Marawi how to identify and react to unexploded bombs on Monday (July 3), as fighting between government troops and Islamist militants continue in the besieged city for the 42nd day. Unexploded Ordinance Risk Facilitator Jhaharah Barrat presented images of grenades, mortar shells and mines to evacuees residing in neighboring Saguiran town, and taught them to immediately report any sighting to authorities. “Anywhere you go when you go to Marawi… […]
Vows to continue ongoing military modernization program (Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday emphasized the “crucial role” of the Philippine Air Force in efforts to liberate Marawi from Islamic State-inspired attacks, as he vowed to continue the modernization program of the country’s aerial warfare troops. “The (PAF) is also playing a crucial role in efforts to take Marawi from the clutches of the ISIS-inspired terrorists. We have deployed more than 40 of our air […]
by Layal Abou Rahal with Ahmad Mousa in Mosul Agence France Presse BEIRUT, Lebanon (AFP) — United States-backed forces have penetrated the heavily fortified heart of jihadist bastion Raqa for the first time, in a key milestone in the war against the Islamic State group in Syria. Air strikes by the US-led coalition battling IS punched two holes in the mediaeval wall surrounding the Old City of Raqa, allowing fighters of the Syrian Democratic […]
QUEZON City, Philippines (Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte has approved a national budget for 2018, Budget Secretary Benjamin Diokno confirmed on Monday, July 3. Duterte will ask Congress for a Php 3.767 trillion national budget for 2018 in his second State of the Nation Address (SONA) to be held on July 24, he said. Malacañang drafted the 2018 national budget with Presidential spokesperson Ernesto Abella saying that the budget was agreed upon in the […]
