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Police said that the bombing was not a suicide attack. [9] An eyewitness reportedly saw a man placing a bag believed to contain the bomb, [15] while CCTV footage showed the two suspected bombers arriving at the gymnasium on a motorcycle at around 7:03 a.m. and stood there for eight minutes. [16] The explosion produced a crater in the gymnasium ...
The siege of Marawi (Filipino: Pagkubkob sa Marawi), [30] [31] also known as the Marawi crisis (Krisis sa Marawi) [32] and the Battle of Marawi (Labanan sa Marawi), was a five-month-long armed conflict in Marawi, Philippines, that started on May 23, 2017, between Philippine government security forces against militants affiliated with the Islamic State (IS), including the Maute and Abu Sayyaf ...
MANILA (Reuters) -Islamic State militants claimed responsibility for a deadly bombing at a Catholic Mass in the Philippines on Sunday that killed at least four people and injured 50 others. The ...
The Moro conflict [38] [39] [40] was an insurgency in the Mindanao region of the Philippines which involved multiple armed groups. [41] [30] A decades-long peace process [38] [42] has resulted in peace deals between the Philippine government and two major armed groups, the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) [43] and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), [44] but other smaller armed ...
A video discovered on a cellphone seized by AFP during a raid on a safe house in Marawi shows militants including Hapilon and Maute brothers were planning attack on Marawi. [23] The attack was the 4th step for them to gain the approval of the ISIL leadership,"requires the conduct of widespread atrocities and uprisings all across Mindanao." [24 ...
Volodymyr Zelenskyy asks residents to evacuate as water gushes from destroyed Nova Kakhovka dam in Kherson near Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant
AMMAN (Reuters) -Russian and Syrian jets struck the rebel-held city of Idlib in northern Syria on Sunday, military sources said, as President Bashar al-Assad vowed to crush insurgents who had ...
Marawi hero: The courage of Captain Rommel Sandoval, YouTube video On September 10, 2017, Sandoval's company was tasked with retaking a stronghold of the Islamic militants. The building, a 5-storey commercial complex called C&D Centerpoint, was occupied by a branch of the Land Bank of the Philippines prior to the siege.