A military water craft being towed by an army truck passed by the long lines of vehicles at the checkpoint in the entrance to Iligan City on Tuesday afternoon, June 13. (Alex D. Lopez/davaotoday.com)
Duterte fulfilled most of his campaign promises but gained more enemies along the way, claimed a local professor here.
Young boys who were among the more than 200,000 displaced due to the fighting in Marawi look up to a tarpaulin which hangs at the Lanao del Sur Provincial Capitol grounds in Marawi City on Tuesday, June 13, 2017. The sign calls on residents to “rise up” from the tragedy . (Zea Io Ming C. Capistrano/davaotoday.com)
Government troops can be seen at a distance roving around the once busy street of Amai Pakpak Avenue in Marawi City on Day 22 of the fighting in Marawi, June 13, 2017. (Zea Io Ming C. Capistrano/davaotoday.com)
Evacuees from Marawi City who are taking shelter at the Saguiaran Municipal Hall in Saguiaran, Lanao del Sur look up in the sky as fighter jets of the government fly around to launch aerial strikes against local terrorists groups in Marawi City on Monday, June 12, 2017. (Zea Io Ming C. Capistrano/davaotoday.com)
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.
