Martial Law in Mindanao

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PACMAN IN MARAWI. Boxing champ and Filipino Sen. Manny Pacquiao, who is a Lieutenant Colonel of the Army's reserved command, visits troops at the Camp Ranao in Marawi City, Saturday morning, July 29 as the government operations against the ISIS-linked Maute group. Pacquiao is the first senator who visited Marawi City since the siege started last May 23. (Divina M. Suson/davaotoday.com)

Pacman: I’m ready to fight with gov’t troops in Marawi

Filipino boxing champ and Senator, Emmanuel "Manny" Pacquiao visited government troops here as the fighting between the military and ISIS-backed Maute group drags on for more than two months on Friday, July 29.

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MOMENTARY DISTRACTION. A visiting Catholic nun facilitates a psychosocial intervention with the children in an evacuation center in Saguiaran town in Lanao del Sur on Friday, July 28. The nuns were part of a delegation of the National Interfaith Humanitarian Mission, a relief operation organized by volunteer network Kalinaw Mindanao. (Paulo C. Rizal/davaotoday.com)

MOMENTARY DISTRACTION

A visiting Catholic nun facilitates a psychosocial intervention with the children in an evacuation center in Saguiaran town in Lanao del Sur on Friday, July 28. (More...) (Paulo C. Rizal/davaotoday.com)

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Read more about the article Marawi woman evacuee: Arafat is not a terrorist
A WIFE'S GRIEF. Noraidah Lala, 35, forces back her tears while telling interviewers the fate of her husband, Arafat, who was arrested by authorities on July 23 for being suspected as a member of the Maute group. In a separate interview with Davao Today on Friday, July 29, Noraidah vehemently denied that her husband is a terrorist, saying that Arafat works as a mechanic. (Paulo C. Rizal/davaotoday.com)

Marawi woman evacuee: Arafat is not a terrorist

Noraidah Lala, 35, insisted that his husband, Arafat, who was recently arrested and charged with a rebellion by Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao police, was not a member of the Maute group.

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Read more about the article Children idolizing ISIS show gov’t unattached to people – Adiong
NO HUNGER. Spokesperson Zia Alonto-Adiong of the Provincial Crisis Management Committee denies earlier reports that some displaced families from Marawi City have already experienced hunger inside evacuation centers. Adiong made the clarification in a press briefing at the Provincial Capitol in Marawi on Wednesday, June 21. (Alex D. Lopez/davaotoday.com)

Children idolizing ISIS show gov’t unattached to people – Adiong

If reports that some children in Marawi City idolize the Islamic State are true, then such is a classic case that some people in Mindanao have no attachment to the government.

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