Joint Task Force Ranao deputy commander Col. Romeo Brawner Jr., has confirmed the troops have encountered the group of Maute-ISIS remnants – around 40 armed men – Sunday in the vicinity of the towns of Tubaran and Pagayawan in Lanao del Sur.
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The military launched an air strike-backed operation against suspected Maute gunmen in Tubaran town in Lanao del Sur on Sunday, but no casualty was immediately reported.
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Read moreArmed with a search warrant, the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency-Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, with the Philippine National Police-Special Action Force and Army 6th Infantry Battalion, swooped down on Disalongan’s residence at around 5 a.m. He was in his residence during the raid and did not resist arrest.
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An Arabic school teacher was wounded after a sibling shot him during an altercation in Poona Bayabao town in Lanao del Sur on Tuesday evening, the police reported on Wednesday.
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The Office of the Ombudsman has indicted a former mayor of Marantao, Lanao del Sur for failing to declare five firearms and a truck in his statements of assets, liabilities and net worth (SALNs) from 2007 to 2012.
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Read moreA man is facing charges for posing himself as policeman in lieu of his brother who is a police officer who had gone AWOL (Absent Without Leave).
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