Of the 96 villages in Marawi City, only four villages remain “problematic” areas and are now the focused of military operations, Presidential Spokesperson Ernesto Abella said Wednesday during Wednesday’s “Mindanao Hour.”
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The collaboration between the US forces and the Armed Forces of the Philippines only worsens the crisis in the besieged Marawi City, a Moro leader said in a statement on Wednesday.
As the crisis in the besieged Marawi City enters on the 23rd day, several religious groups initiated a community kitchen to feed the thousands evacuees.
The New People’s Army in Southern Mindanao took a police officer and declared it as ‘prisoner of war.’
“The rightist in the cabinet is making a United States lackey out of President Rodrigo Duterte,” was how Anakpawis Rep. Ariel Casilao described the recent foreign intervention of the US in the Marawi siege.
A group of community educators slammed the Armed Forces of the Philippines and the paramilitary group Alamara for conducting series of attacks against Lumad schools in Davao region.
Major Ezra Latawan Balagtey, spokesperson of Eastern Mindanao Command, said that military troops from the 16th Infantry Battalion encountered a group of New People’s Army at Sitio Bajada, Paradise Embac, Paquibato District, this city early morning on June 11.
Malacañang on Saturday said that President Rodrigo Duterte is expected to issue an executive order for the establishment of a rehabilitation program intended for the besieged Marawi City.
As the entire nation is set to celebrate the 119th Independence day on June 12, the Armed Forces of the Philippines has set it as deadline to liberate the besieged Marawi City from the ISIS-linked Maute group.
The Blas F. Ople Policy Center, a non-profit organization that assists distressed overseas Filipino workers cited the popular slogan which was featured in posters and coffee mugs worldwide to lessen the fears of OFWs in the Middle East.
