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.
The role of the United States Special Forces in Marawi fighting is not a big deal, a military official here said Tuesday.
Police officers and civilians trapped for 22 days inside the center of the embattled city of Marawi were rescued early morning Tuesday.
The families of fallen soldiers Private First Class Freddie Delos Santos and Corporal Casidy Uday will be receiving cash assistance, and will be spared the wake and burial expenses, said City Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio on Monday.