President Rodrigo Duterte reiterated he will not extend his presidency by the end of his term.
After almost 5 months inside the battle area, the 1st Infantry Battalion of the Philippine Army has left the city Friday morning, October 20, following a send-off ceremony held inside the military’s Camp Ranao.
Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio lauded law enforcers for the arrest of a woman suspected to have links with the group behind the Roxas night market bombing last year.
When President Rodrigo Duterte declared Marawi City liberated from terrorists’ influence last Tuesday, October 17, reporters covering the crisis in the country’s only Islamic city got a glimpse of the face of the destruction inside the battle zone.
Displaced residents in the cleared areas of this city have already returned to their homes, said the deputy commander of Joint Task Force Ranao on Thursday, October 19.
Two members of the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF) were killed and five soldiers were wounded in the latest clashes between them in Maguindanao on Thursday afternoon, October 19.
A group of Marawi residents are planning to file a class suit against the government for the destruction of the city’s properties and the deaths of civilians due to the conflict between state forces and local terrorists.
Roseno Mabale, 42 has been a school janitor for half of his life. He started working as a school janitor the Ateneo de Davao University (ADDU) in 1996 under a service provider and he remembered it was on March 16, 1997 when an area was assigned for him to clean inside the campus of ADDU along Jacinto Street.
When Malacañang ordered the suspension of classes due to the transport strike, the Commission of Higher Education also ordered the suspension of classes in private higher educational institutions (HEIs) across the country.
A former soldier was killed after allegedly attempting to fight operatives of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) here on Wednesday afternoon, October 18.