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ZAMBOANGA CITY --The all-out military campaign launched by the Joint Task Forces of the Western Mindanao Command within its joint area of operations since January this year yielded to the deaths of 94 hard-core members of the Abu Sayyaf Group, apprehension of 66 more, surrender of 98, and recovery of 148 firearms of the group.As the timeline given by the Commander-in-Chief to defeat the Abu Sayyaf comes to an end, 2 more Abu Sayyaf members surrendered to the Joint Task Force Basilan under Colonel Juvymax Uy yesterday (June 29).Serham Hasim Akkalun and Hapid Madjakin, both Basilan-based Abu

LANAO DEL SUR --- Relatives have warned of a plot by Omar and Abdullah Maute to humiliate the Moro Islamic Liberation Front by derailing the group's efforts to help in the Marawi crisis.The sources also clarified on Tuesday that Tausug members from among senior Dawlah Islamiya members prodded the Maute siblings to continue keeping Catholic priest Teresito Suganob captive to prevent the military from getting close.Among the sources are clan relatives of patriarch Cayamora Maute from Marantao, Lanao del Sur.One relative said the plan is to embarrass the MILF if it tries to mediate between the

OPERATION SIYAP UPDATES3rd batch of photos taken during the 2nd day of Operation Siyap.Operation Siyap is a collaborative effort of Provincial Security Force (PSF), PNP and AFP. Its main goal is to secure and padlock the houses and properties at the cleared areas of Marawi City.

LANAO DEL SUR --- The military is now validating reports by evacuees that Catholic priest Teresito Suganob is still being held hostage by militants somewhere in Marawi City.Suganob and more than a dozen lay workers and worshipers were snatched while inside the St. Mary’s Church in Marawi City by Maute and Abu Sayyaf terrorists that laid siege in several villages there on May 23. We got information from evacuees rescued last Sunday from conflict-affected barangays that Fr. Chito is still alive but is a virtual captive. The information is being checked now, Lt. Gen. Carlito Galvez, Jr.

KIDAPAWAN CITY
- Five weeks after the fighting erupted in Marawi, the Department of Education
(DepEd) is still tracking the whereabouts of at least 140 of their teachers
that fled the city, a school official said.

The Marawi
City schools division has 1,413 teachers, data showed. At least 90 percent of them have already been
accounted for, according to Ana Zenaida Unte, assistant schools division
superintendent of Marawi City.

Image may contain text sand//scontent.fmnl9-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/19399805_1773943225965420_598148187977156854_n.jpg?oh=e48a51159a5a294752f559c546de668eandampoe=59C75166 25 June 2017 M E S S A G EMy Muslim Brothers and Sistersand Eid Mubarak ! As you end the holy month of Ramadan on the first day of Shawwal , I extend to you my greetings of peace in the Almighty and Merciful God.You spent the holy month praying not only for Muslim communities but also for those who belong to other religions.

A Muslim soldier arranges the scattered slippers of moderate Muslims at the venue of the Eid'l Fitr worship rite near the grandstand of the Army's 6th Infantry Division in Camp Siongco, Datu Odin Sinsuat, Maguindanao, which 6th ID officials opened to worshipers to ensure their safety from a possible attack by fanatically misguided Islamic militants who persecute Christians and neutral Muslims who disagree with their religious malpractices.

LANAO DEL SUR --- Scholars will start watching on tonightfor the new moon to appear to mark the culmination of the month-long Islamic fasting season.If the new moon is sighted on Saturday night, Muslims in the south and elsewhere in the country will celebrate on Sunday the Eid’l Fit’r, or the end of Ramadhan, a holy month in Islam.Authorities have started securing designated sites for Eid’l Fit’r open-field congregational prayers in the Autonomous Region in Muslim (ARMM), which covers Maguindanao and Lanao del Sur, both in mainland Mindanao, and the island provinces of Basilan, Sulu and Taw

CAMP SIONGCO, Maguindanao--- Authorities are not ignoring the threats by the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF) to attack Davao City to avenge the deaths of 13 senior members killed by soldiers recently.The threats were written on chalkboards in classrooms and in the barangay hall of Malagakit in Pigcawayan, North Cotabato where some 300 BIFF bandits laid siege for about nine hours on Wednesday.

LANAO DEL SUR — The incursion of the Dawlah Islamiya into Marawi City is meant to project the local terror group's strength by eradicating so-called hypocrites and non-believers, sources said.For the outlawed fanatical group, no other place can be a better takeoff point for Islamic revivalism than Marawi City, whose 92 barangays comprise the only Islamic City in the predominantly Catholic Philippines.The ranks of theDawlahIslamiya, which started as theMauteterror group five years ago, is now filled with members of a faction in the AbuSayyafled byIsnilonHapilon, who is from the island pr