Task Force Marawi continues to pullout troops as fighting ‘weakens’
"I would like to say it's already done! It's a complete and total victory for the troops!"
"I would like to say it's already done! It's a complete and total victory for the troops!"
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.
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.
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.