BANGSAMORO NEWS UPDATES

COTABATO CITY – The Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) is showcasing and promoting the region’s grandest mock tribal villages narrating the variety of cultures, traditions, history, and oneness of the Bangsamoro people.Launched on Monday, June 18, the ARMM villages’ expo is held inside the Office of the Regional Governor’s Compound here and is mounted to give the visitors a snapshot of the Moro’s vast cultural heritage. People will experience the beauty of the culture of the Bangsamoro people.

MAGUINDANAO --- The major shabu transshipment point in southern Maguindanao was declared free from illegal drugs on Monday after two years of community efforts to weed local syndicates out.Juvenal Azurin, director of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency-Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, announced on Monday in Buluan town, the provincial capital, that Barangay Kabuling in Pandag is now free from drug traffickers, a requisite for the municipality to become a drug free area.

LANAO DEL SUR --- Two Islamic militants were killed in a series of gunfights with pursuing soldiers on Sunday afternoon in Tubaran town in Lanao del Sur.The military operation was launched noontime Sunday after villagers reported the presence in a hinterland there of terrorists led by Abu Dar, the new leader of the Dawlah lslamiya, most known as the Maute terror group.Local residents, among them traditional Meranao community elders, said two followers of Abu Dar --- Arimudin Banser and Zaman Ukor --- were killed in the ensuing encounters.Army personnel who figured in the gunfights used arti

ZAMBOANGA CITY -A member of Abu Sayaff Group was killed during a pursuit operation conducted by troops of the Joint Task Force Sulu at Sitio Sailih of Barangay Panglayahan in Patikul municipality around 6:20 p.m. Saturday.Brigadier General Divino Rey C Pabayo, commander of the Joint Task Force Sulu, said that encounter started at 3:20 p.m. when elements of the 32nd Infantry Battalion under Lieutenant Colonel Ronaldo Mateo engaged a group of around 40 ASG led by a certain Hajaan Sawadjaan. Exchange of fires lasted for 35 minutes with no reported casualty among the government forces.

MAGUINDANAO ---- Authorities foiled on Friday attempts by communist rebels and Islamic State-inspired militants to set off roadside bombs in Sultan Kudarat and North Cotabato provinces.Captain Arvin Encinas, public affairs officer of the Army’s 6thInfantry Division, said Saturday bomb experts were able to promptly deactivate the improvised explosive device found by motorists along a thoroughfare in the town proper of Esperanza, Sultan Kudarat.The IED was packed with metal fragments with jagged edges and rigged with a detonating contraption that can be activated from a distance.It was the se

I join the Bangsamoro, the people of the Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao (ARMM), and the rest of the Filipino nation in celebrating Eid’l Fitr. We extend our greetings to all peoples of goodwill as the blessed month of Ramadan comes to a close.Ramadan is a time of both reflection and struggle.

GEN. SK PENDATUN, Maguindanao – Residents living around the vast Liguasan marshland in Maguindanao and North Cotabato were elated the IS inspired are gone.This after the military’s air and ground assaults that led to the destruction of Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF) bomb factory.Locals, mostly fishermen of freshwater fish like mudfish, have been providing the military with information of high intelligence value to the military. The civilians are helping the military crush the BIFF because the group had been making life difficult for them, Lt.

COTABATO CITY --- The executive department of the Autonomous Region in Muslim reiterated Wednesday its readiness turn over the ARMM government to the Moro Islamic Liberation Front once the Bangsamoro Basic Law is approved.ARMM Gov. Mujiv Hataman, now in his second term as chief executive of the autonomous region, said Wednesday he and members of his regional cabinet have long prepared for such transition. All of us are supporters of the peace process between the national government and the MILF.

CAMP SIONGCO, Maguindanao - A municipal councilor was arrested and 2others eluded from the arresting authority in a separate drug operations today, June 13, 2018 in Balabagan, Lanao del Sur.The drug raid was conducted by the personnel of Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency of Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (PDEA-ARMM), Special Action Force of the PNP with the 6thInfantry Battalion.The arrested suspect was identified as Abedin Disalongan, a municipal councilor in Balabagan.The operation was carried by virtue of search warrant at the suspect’s residence at around 5and00 a.m.During the o

MAGUINDANAO --- Six members of the outlawed Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters and a soldier were killed in separate clashes in Maguindanao on Monday.The Army fatality, Private 1stClass Quitor of the 33rdIB, died from bullet wounds sustained in a gunfight with BIFF bandits in the Liguasan Delta, near the group’s bomb-making facility destroyed by an airstrike before dawn Monday.Gen.