14-hour firefight in Marawi costs 50 gov’t casualties
The government’s operations against the Maute group resulted in 50 casualties among the Philippine Army troops on Friday, 17 days after President Rodrigo Duterte declared Martial Law in Mindanao.
The government’s operations against the Maute group resulted in 50 casualties among the Philippine Army troops on Friday, 17 days after President Rodrigo Duterte declared Martial Law in Mindanao.
The Salinlahi Alliance for Children’s Concerns on Sunday condemned the death of a Grade 6 pupil inside a Mosque in Marawi.
A tranquil view of a Mosque in Saguiaran town in Lanao del Sur, a municipality before Marawi City from Iligan City where government troops and local terrorists continue fighting. Saguiaran was among the municipalities and cities near Marawi City where hundreds of residents evacuated due to the conflict. (Zea Io Ming C. Capistrano/davaotoday.com)
Some 84 government troops who were wounded in action in the fighting in Marawi City against local terrorists await for the arrival of President Rodrigo Duterte who will meet them at the military hospital inside Camp Brig. General Edilberto Evangelista in Cagayan de Oro City on Sunday afternoon, June 11. (Zea Io Ming C. Capistrano/davaotoday.com)
President Rodrigo Duterte on Sunday said he is not aware of the role played by the US Special Forces in Marawi City