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Six people were killed in Cotabato shootout during raid at suspect’s hideout, police chief says.

DEVELOPMENT. A diorama shows the map of Marawi City where current projects of Task Force Bangon Marawi are located. On Saturday (Oct. 16, 2021), the National Housing Authority showed the map to President Rodrigo Duterte, who attended the fourth anniversary of the city's liberation from Maute terrorists. (PNA photo by Nef Luczon) CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY - After President Rodrigo Duterte's visit to Marawi City on Saturday, affected residents of the siege four years ago are hoping they will be ...

Some praise the Taliban victory in Kabul; security experts warn that it could energize extremists.

“The rehabilitation of the country’s only Islamic city remains on track and we are confident that most, if not all, of the ongoing projects, will be finished by either December of this year or well within the term of the current administration,” Del Rosario reiterated. “We commit to deliver the promise of our President that he will see to it that ‘Marawi will rise as a prosperous city again’…. Let me reiterate also our vision to make the Marawi rehabilitation as a catalyst for gro...

Froilan Gallardo/BenarNews Philippine peace activist and Marawi tribal leader Agakhan Sharief, who rescued more than 200 trapped civilians during a siege of the southern city by Islamic State-linked militants in 2017, died on Tuesday after a prolonged illness. Sharief, 49, who was popularly known as “Bin Laden” because of his flowing beard that resembled that of the dead terrorist leader, brokered a ceasefire between state forces and the militants so that 255 civilians could ...

[AFP] The Philippine National Police has released nine officers who had been in custody for their alleged involvement in the killing of four army intelligence specialists in the troubled south last June, officials said on Tuesday. The officers, who were dismissed from the service on Jan. 1, were freed because they could not be held any longer after a court failed to issue arrest warrants for them, PNP spokesman Brig. Gen. Ildebrandi Usana told reporters. “They were released from...