Evacuees walk through makeshift homes in Balo-i township, Lanao del Norte province after fleeing the besieged city of Marawi (Oct. 17, 2017). The surprisingly protracted and intense urban war that ...

‘Falcon,’ a Marine sniper, recalls how his companions died as they tried to reclaim the Mapandi bridge from the Maute group – Isis-inspired terrorists – amid the five-month-long conflict in Marawi ...

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Eight years ago, the Battle of Marawi tested not only the strength of our Armed Forces but also the soul of our nation. What began on May 23, 2017, as an operation to arrest a terrorist leader ...

Isnilon Hapilon, known to security analysts as the leader of the militant Islamic State (IS) group in Southeast Asia, was killed in the battle to reclaim a rebel-held Philippines city, the defence ...

Sustaining the global relevance of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) are affiliates in Nigeria, Mali, Yemen, Afghanistan, India, and the Philippines—along with an unknown number of homegrown ...

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The last time Mustapha Alauya L. Pacasum saw his ancestral home standing was three years ago. The spacious three-story concrete house in his hometown of Marawi, on the southern Philippine island of ...

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