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(Eagle News) — Omar Maute and Isnilon Hapilon were attempting to transfer to another building with their hostages when the military assaulted them in the main battle area in Marawi early Monday. According to Armed Forces of the Philippines Chief General Eduardo Año, the two terrorist leaders were trying to get to the two boats they had asked their hostages to make but they couldn’t get to where these were because the military had sealed off […]
(Eagle News) — Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana on Monday confirmed Omar Maute and Isnilon Hapilon have been killed. Lorenzana said the bodies of the two–which were recovered on Monday morning after a firefight in the main battle area in Marawi—will be subjected to DNA tests. Also recovered from the military operation were 17 hostages. He said rewards were also coming from other countries for their deaths. The killing of the two terrorist leaders who led […]
(Eagle News) — Omar Maute and Isnilon Hapilon are still in Marawi’s battlezone along with the other Islamist terrorists who are still fighting it out with government troops, according to the Armed Forces of the Philippines. AFP Spokesperson Brig. General Restituto Padilla said the two Islamist militant leaders are leading the terrorists in fighting the government forces who are conducting what the military termed as the “final push” against the Islamist extremists. The Islamist militants’ […]
Says war in Marawi will not stop until last terrorist is “taken out” (Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte on Saturday reiterated the government’s no-negotiation policy with terrorists, noting that the war in Marawi will continue until the last one was “taken out.” “I will never ever talk to the terrorists. There will never be forgiving them,” Duterte said in a speech during ceremonies commemorating the 50th founding anniversary of Davao del Sur in Digos. […]
“A few more days and we will prevail (there),” he says (Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte on Thursday said an investigation into the source of weapons of local terrorists should be underway soon, as he surmised the crisis in Marawi would end in a “few more days.” “It will be good that after this war, (we) start looking into saan itong mga baril at bala (nanggaling). Kasi may mga cartons doon marka pa (the […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte said he was set to visit Marawi to check the situation there. “I cannot just sit on my a** sa opisina ko. Hirap ang tao doon,” Duterte said in groundbreaking rites of the Presidential Security Group Hospital in Malacanang Park. In his speech, the President said he “really wallow(s) in sorrow” as he was the one who gave the orders for government troops to go to Marawi and fight […]
“We will live in peace and guarantee peace for the next generation,” he says (Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday promised the people in Marawi their city would be “prosperous” again, saying he would do everything within his power to enable its rehabilitation and reconstruction. “One thing I will promise you, my brother Moro, I will see to it that Marawi will rise as a prosperous city again. Maghanap ako ng pera. (Sabi ko kay […]
The military on Saturday said it was verifying reports Isnilon Hapilon has escaped Marawi. Hapilon, a veteran Filipino militant who claims to be the leader of the Islamic State (IS) group in Southeast Asia, has not been seen in the battle zone, said Lieutenant General Carlito Galvez, head of the military’s Western Mindanao Command. An attempt by government troops to arrest Hapilon in Marawi on May 23 triggered a rampage by Islamist militants flying black […]
A Malaysian militant and former university professor who allegedly funded the Islamist militants in Marawi City was among those killed by government forces in the besieged city, according to intelligence information received by the government forces as fighting entered its second month. Wire reports from the Associated Press quoted Armed Forces of the Philippines chief Gen. Eduardo Ano as saying that Malaysian Mahmud bin Ahmad, who reportedly channeled more than $600,000 or P30 million […]
(Eagle News) — The Armed Forces of the Philippines said on Thursday that one of the leaders of the terrorist group Maute was likely dead. “Omar(khayam) Maute, more or less, mukhang patay na ito,” General Eduardo Año said in an ambush interview on the sidelines of a security meeting in Pasay. According to Año, his brother Abdullah was, however, still alive, and was still inside Marawi. The “death” of Omarkhayam comes weeks after the arrest of Cayamora […]
(Eagle News)– President Rodrigo Duterte has offered a P10-million bounty on the alleged “Emir” of ISIS in the Philippines and Abu Sayyaf leader Isnilon Hapilon. “The President is offering P10 million reward money for the neutralization of Isnilon Hapilon who is believed to be leading the terrorist Maute-ISIS group in attacking Marawi City,” Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) chief General Eduardo Año said Monday. Año said the President also offered P5 million each for […]
(Eagle News) — The death toll in the ongoing clashes in Marawi was pegged at 98 as of Sunday night, with authorities assuring the public that the clashes there were nearing their end. Reading from a Powerpoint presentation on Monday, presidential spokesperson Ernesto Abella said 18 of those killed were from the government side–15 from the military, and three from the Philippine National Police. Nineteen civilians, he said, have been killed by local terrorist groups. Sixty one terrorists have […]
