TEARFUL SEPARATION

Benjie B. Talisic, Inquirer.net, Nestle L. Semilla, Nestor P. Burgos Jr. 06/17/2017

They are battle-experienced soldiers, but they unabashedly shed tears and hugged their wives, children and other loved ones as they left Iloilo on Saturday to beef up government troops fighting the Islamic State-inspired Maute terror group in…

AFP Central Command sends Army battalion to Mindanao

Benjie B. Talisic, Nestle L. Semilla 06/17/2017

  The Armed Forced of the Philippines -Central Command (CentCom) is sending one Army Battalion from Panay to the Western Mindanao Comand (Westmincon) today, following a directive from the headquarters of the Armed Forces of the Philippines.…

Cayamora Maute flown to Manila for security reasons — army exec

Inquirer.net 06/08/2017

A military official on Thursday said the patriarch of the Maute brothers was flown to Manila on Wednesday night since he was considered a “high-risk” detainee and the Maute terrorists might stage an attack to rescue him…

Ex-soldier nabbed for unlicensed guns

Nestle L. Semilla 06/07/2017

A RETIRED soldier was arrested at a checkpoint in Barangay Taytay, Danao City, for possession of several revolvers and ammunitions at 9 p.m. last Tuesday. Chief Insp. Gerard Ace Pelare, Danao City police chief, said police spotted…

MAO BA?

06/01/2017

AIR STRIKES After Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana announced that at least 11 soldiers were killed and seven others injured in an air strike aimed at the Maute terrorists in Marawi City, netizens were quick in offering their…

Islamist militants kill 19 civilians — Army

05/28/2017

Islamist militants locked in street-to-street battles with security forces in a southern Philippine city have killed 19 civilians, the military said Sunday, bringing the official death toll from nearly a week of fighting to at least 85.…

DepEd official: Zapatera Muslim teachers could be among those stranded in Marawi

Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 05/26/2017

Two regular Muslim teachers assigned in Zapatera Elementary School may be among the affected individuals stranded in Marawi City due to the on going siege. Bianito Dagatan, schools division superintendent of Cebu City, confirmed in a phone…

Three remaining members of Abu Sayyaf still in Bohol

Ador Vincent S. Mayol 04/27/2017

One of the three remaining members of the Abu Sayyaf in Bohol was reportedly spotted in a village in Tubigon town which is adjacent to Clarin where the April 22 gunfight between government troops and the bandits…

Duterte cancels visit to wake of cop slain in Bohol encounter

Ador Vincent S. Mayol, Leo Udtohan 04/20/2017

MUDDY roads stopped President Duterte from attending the wake of the lone policeman killed during the encounter with Abu Sayyaf members in Inabanga town, Bohol, last week. Instead, Philippine National Police Director General Ronald “Bato” dela Rosa…

Gov’t troops secure Olango village due to “armed men”

Ador Vincent S. Mayol 04/20/2017

CEBU CITY–Government troops have surrounded a coastal village on Olango Island, 6.4 km from Lapu-Lapu City on Mactan Island, after a resident claimed seeing two armed men in the area past 2 p.m. on Thursday. When police…

In which terrain can gov’t forces win?

Atty. Ruphil F. Bañoc 04/20/2017

I am now beginning to understand why it is really very hard for the government forces to fight the Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) in Basilan and Jolo as can be gleaned from their failure to neutralize the…

Napo evacuees return to farms, try to bring back lives before clash

Benjie Talisic, Doris C. Bongcac 04/15/2017

AFTER the armed encounter between government troops and suspected Abu Sayyaf members in Inabanga town in Bohol province, evacuees from Barangay Napo are trying to bring some normalcy back in their lives. Most of the evacuees from…

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