All three components, ground, air, and navy demonstrated their readiness to react in emergency situations in a counter terrorism combat simulation activity held by the Joint Task Force Haribon inside the Task Force Davao headquarters in Sta. Ana Wharf here, on Wednesday, Mar. 8.
The Armed Forces of the Philippines is currently waging an all out war against the ASG. The AFP recently deployed 8,000 soldiers as augmentation force to Sulu and Basilan, both known to be a bailiwick of the ASG operations.
Following the beheading of German national Juergen Kantner on Sunday by the Abu Sayyaf Group in Sulu, the Department of National Defense has vowed once again to go after the ASG with the “full force of the law.”
A government anti-terrorist unit here said it welcomed the upcoming talks of Mayor Sara Duterte and the New People’s Army, armed-wing of the Communist Party of the Philippines.
Two members of the New People’s Army were dead after a 40-minute clash with government troops in Asuncion, Davao del Norte, the Army said Sunday.
The Armed Forces would detail another battalion here to guard its perimeters, the Davao City Public Safety and Security Command Center here has announced.
Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte said she is willing to listen to the NPA “if the NPA is willing to talk.”
“There was no NPA attack last February 15 against an AFP-escorted relief operations in Barangay Linunggaman, San Francisco, Surigao del Norte,” the CPP said in a statement Friday.
Two soldiers were killed and 17 others were wounded in a series of armed encounters with New People’s Army guerrillas in northern Davao City on Thursday.
A relief convoy that has just distributed goods to disaster-stricken communities in Malimono town, Surigao del Norte was shot by still unidentified number of armed men.
