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…

Pope Francis calls for a minute of prayer

Ador Vincent S. Mayol 06/07/2017

AT 1 p.m. today, Thursday, Pope Francis is inviting everyone to stop their daily activities and dedicate a minute to reflect and pray for peace according to one’s own religious tradition. The Pope also calls on everyone…

Alarming evidence

Editorial 06/07/2017

A video clip and the discovery of P79 million in cash and checks from a house in Marawi City may bolster the Duterte administration’s position to extend its martial law over Mindanao at the Supreme Court. The…

Duterte offers P10M bounty for Hapilon, P5M each for Maute brods

Inquirer 06/05/2017

President Rodrigo Duterte has placed a bounty of P10 million on Abu Sayyaf senior leader Isnilon Hapilon’s head, Armed Forces of the Philippines chief Gen. Eduardo Año announced on Monday. Hapilon is reportedly the designated “emir” of…

MAUTE PHOTOS UP IN PUBLIC PLACES IN CEBU

Ador Vincent S. Mayol 06/03/2017

  Photos will help. With this in mind, the Cebu City Police Office (CCPO) yesterday released the individual photograph of about 90 members of the Maute terror group, hoping to get help from the community to fast-track…

Gov’t more convinced ISIS backing Maute

Inquirer.net 06/03/2017

DAVAO CITY – Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana on Saturday said the government now believes that the fighting in Marawi City was being backed by the Islamic State because of the way the armed men were behaving. Lorenzana…

MAO BA?

06/02/2017

AND WHY NOT? The arrival in Cebu City yesterday of at least 14 families, or 62 internally displaced persons, who escaped from the raging gun battle in Marawi City between state troops and the Maute-IS terror group,…

Better safe than sorry

Ador Vincent S. Mayol 06/01/2017

TO avert possible terror attacks in Central Visayas, Cebu Gov. Hilario Davide III on Thursday convened the Regional Peace and Order Council (RPOC) and urged law enforcers and local government leaders to step up their security arrangements…

More Marawi City refugees arrive in Cebu City today

Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 06/01/2017

REFUGEES from Marawi City continue to arrive in Cebu City as the conflict there remains unresolved. Another batch of refugees are arriving early today on board the MV Trans Asia 8, which left Iligan City last night,…

‘Surgical’ air strikes

Stephen D. Capillas 06/01/2017

It is both tragic and instructional that the deaths of several soldiers due to “friendly fire” or air strikes in Marawi City should cause so much public outrage that calls for the military to end it would…

Duterte’s martial law version is justifiable so far

Atty. Ruphil F. Bañoc 06/01/2017

With all due respect to those who had a miserable experience during the martial law of the late dictator president Ferdinand Marcos, the recently declared martial law in Mindanao by President Rodrigo Duterte is so far within…

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…

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