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Islamist gunmen are holed up in about 1,500 buildings in Marawi after weeks of ferocious fighting that has left people dead, officials said Monday. President Rodrigo Duterte last month vowed to “crush” the militants who rampaged through the city on May 23, with the military saying they were hoping to end the fight soon. The gunmen are led by Isnilon Hapilon, one of the world’s most wanted men, who is believed to be still alive […]
QUEZON City, Philippines (Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte vowed that the military offensive against Islamist radicals, including the Maute group, will continue until the last terrorist is taken out. “We will not go out there until the last terrorist is executed,” he said. During his speech at the 50th Araw ng Davao del Sur held at the Davao del Sur Coliseum in Digos City on Saturday, July 1, the President also sympathized with the […]
QUEZON City, Philippines (Eagle News) — The Maute Group is continuing to lose ground in Marawi City. Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) Chief of Staff General Eduardo Año said that only a small part — about one to two square kilometers — of the city is under the control of the terrorist group. The AFP records show that only 100 to 120 members of the Maute remain fighting on the ground. In a report […]
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. […]
(Eagle News) — Authorities are strengthening maritime security to ensure that no militant will make it to other provinces through bodies of water. Brigadier General Gilbert Gapay, martial law spokesperson in the Eastern Mindanao Command, said there were in particular six border stations covering the country’s backdoor. “(The strengthening of maritime security) is done in coordination with other government agencies–the Bureau of Immigration, Coastguard, Bureau of Customs, Philippine National Police, and other local government […]
(Eagle News) – Mahigit 900 estudyanteng lumikas mula sa Marawi City ang nakapagsimula na ng klase sa Lanao. Noong Martes, Hunyo 27, nang simulan ang klase para sa mga nasa elementarya at high school gamit ang mga tent na itinayo ng Department of Education-Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao upang magsilbi nilang pansamantalang paaralan. Ilan sa mga bayan na tinayuan ng tent school ay ang Saguiaran, Pantar at Balo-i. May feeding program din na isinasagawa para sa […]
“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 […]
BEIJING, China — China vowed Thursday to continue providing the Philippines with “necessary assistance,” a day after Beijing donated thousands of weapons to the country to help its fight against Islamist gunmen. Foreign Minister Wang Yi made the remarks during a visit by his Philippine counterpart Alan Peter Cayetano and pledged China’s help with reconstruction efforts in the war-torn southern city of Marawi. “Yesterday the first batch of emergency assistance was delivered to the Philippines,” […]
China on Wednesday donated thousands of guns to the Philippines to help Manila in its battle against Islamist gunmen who are holed up in Marawi. The shipment of assault and sniper rifles and ammunition is the first example of Chinese military aid since President Rodrigo Duterte threatened to move away from Manila’s traditional ally America and seek Beijing’s support. It came after China donated P15 million for the rehabilitation of the war-stricken city in Mindanao. […]
Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte said that he would only lift martial law in Mindanao only when the miltary and those in the know would say that it is time to lift it. In his speech when he accepted the military assistance from China in Clark Air Base in Pampanga, the President said it is only the Armed Forces of the Philippines and the Philippine National Police that would be able to say when […]
(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 […]
(Eagle News) — The Chinese government donated around P15 millon for the relief operations and rehabilitation of the besieged city of Marawi Chinese Ambassador, H.E. Zhao Jianhua presented to President Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday, June 27, “the P15-million check donation that will significantly augment the resources of the Department of Health (DOH) and Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD),” according to a Malacanang release. “The said donation from China to the Philippines is an […]
