Credit to Author: eestopace| Date: Thu, 23 May 2019 14:00:10 +0000
The Philippine Army honored the soldiers who died in one of the country’s most ferocious battles in recent memory.
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Read moreCredit to Author: besguerra| Date: Tue, 21 May 2019 21:36:37 +0000
FORT DEL PILAR, BAGUIO CITY, Philippines — This year’s new batch of Philippine Military Academy (PMA) cadets will pursue a national security management course to handle future crises involving homegrown terrorism and foreign naval incursions, PMA officials said here on Tuesday.
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Read moreCredit to Author: clopez| Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2019 21:32:48 +0000
MARAWI CITY, Philippines — At the foot of a slope at Barangay Bito Buadi Itowa here, the makeshift Marawi Bahay Pag-asa Pilot School stands as a contradiction in terms. “Bahay Pag-asa” means house of hope, but hope is the last thing the dilapidated tents that serve as the school’s classrooms inspire. The tents, divided by […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Alexander Magno| Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2019 18:22:12 +0000
A former mayor of Marawi City with alleged link to an Islamic terror group who is now running again for the city’s mayoralty post was “invited” to the military camp here after the proclamation rally of the Partido Demokratiko Pilipino-Lakas Ng Bayan (PDP Laban), which the candidate attended in this city on Friday, April 12.
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Read moreCredit to Author: besguerra| Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2019 23:21:16 +0000
MANILA, Philippines — When bombs began to rain on her Marawi City neighborhood in 2017, Subaida Mangutara was left with no choice but to flee.
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Credit to Author: eestopace| Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2019 10:04:22 +0000
A member of the Maute Group was found guilty on Friday for committing rebellion and turning a female teenage captive as his sex slave.
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Credit to Author: eestopace| Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2019 06:21:23 +0000
A prosecutor from the DOJ told members of the PNP not to insist on what is wrong, following his order to release Marawi City Vice Mayor Arafat Salic.
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Credit to Author: besguerra| Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2019 21:18:33 +0000
The Philippine government on Tuesday disputed a Washington Post report which claimed that Marawi City remained a “ghost town,” more than a year after government forces took back control of the Lanao del Sur provincial capital from local terror groups.
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Credit to Author: eestopace| Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2019 06:23:54 +0000
Task Force Bangon Marawi (TFBM) is looking to construct about 4,500 temporary shelter units for displaced residents of Marawi.
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Read moreCredit to Author: besguerra| Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2019 21:18:13 +0000
MARAWI CITY — The National Housing Authority (NHA) has turned over 550 units of transitory shelters at Barangay Boganga here to families who lost their homes during the five-month war between government forces and Islamic State-inspired armed groups in Marawi City in 2017.
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