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Mindanao Armed Conflict

6 more BIFF surrender to Army in Maguindanao

CAMP SIONGCO, MAGUINDANAO – Just a day after 10 BIFF extremists surrendered to JTF Central, another set of six (6) Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighter extremists surrender anew to Joint Task Force Central (JTF Central) on the morning of August 25, 2021 in Maguindanao, continuously changing the security landscape in Central Mindanao.

Female NPA ‘Finance Officer’ nabbed in South Cotabato

CAMP SIONGCO, Maguindanao – Combined elements from 5th Special Forces Battalion of 601st Infantry (Unifier) Brigade under Joint Task Force Central (JTFC) together with Polomolok Municipal Police Station and other government forces arrested a female finance officer of New People’s Army by virtue of a warrant of arrest in Poblacion, Polomolok, South Cotabato on August 16, 2021.

NPA intel officer slain in South Cotabato clash

CAMP SIONGCO, Maguindanao – A wanted intelligence officer of the communist terrorist group (CTG) was killed in a law enforcement operation orchestrated by 5th Special Forces Battalion of 6th Infantry (Kampilan) Division; Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG), Polomolok MPS, and other government forces in Barangay Cannery Site, Polomolok, South Cotabato on the afternoon of August 16, 2021.

Huling pagpugay sa isang sundalong bayani na nasawi sa Maguindanao

Binigyang parangal ng 43rd Infantry Battalion, Philippine Army, sa Catarman National Airport sa Catarman, Northern Samar si Corporal Melchor Solayao na nasawi sa isang roadside bombing sa Datu Hoffer, Maguindanao bago lamang.

Anim na mga kasama ni Cpl. Solayao ang nasugatan sa naturang pagpapasabog ng roadside bomb ng Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters habang dumadaan ang kanilang sasakyan sa bahagi ng isang highway sa Datu Hoffer, isa sa mga bayan sa Maguindanao na may presensya ng BIFF.

Si Cpl. Solayao ay taga Barangay Macagtas sa bayan ng Catarman sa Northern Samar.

PRO-BAR condemns murder of Sulu PD, orders deeper probe

Statement of Police Brig. Gen. Eden T Ugale, police regional director for the Bangsamoro Region on the death of Colonel Michael Bawayan Jr, Sulu police director.

 

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NoCot trader slain in gun attack

KIDAPAWAN CITY - Unidentified gunmen shot dead a businessman along the national highway in Arakan, North Cotabato Friday afternoon.

The North Cotabato police office identified the victim as Marc Anthony "MacMac" Galindo who had just arrived in front of his home at about 3 p.m. in Sitio Dilion, Barangay Poblacion, Arakan, North Cotabato nito lang hapon.

Police reports showed Galindo had just alighted from his white pick-up and was about to enter his residential compound when two men on motorbike arrived and without provocation opened fire on him.

Marines seized high powered guns in Tawi-Tawi

ZAMBOANGA CITY -- – Marine Troops from the Marine Battalion Landing Team-12 under the 2nd Marine Brigade captured assorted firearms and ordnance items in Panglima Sugala, Tawi-Tawi on July 22, 2021.

According to NFWM PAO, the Marine troops were tipped off by a concerned citizen about the presence of two unidentified civilians at Sitio Pasabuli, Barangay Tongbangkaw, Panglima Sugala allegedly transporting assorted firearms using one watercraft en route to Sitio Lookan, Barangay Banaran, Sapa-Sapa town Thursday afternoon.

Wanted terror group bomber killed in South Cotabato

KORONADAL CITY - A combined police-army team shot dead a wanted member of the Dawlah Islamiya terror group in a brief encounter in Tupi, South Cotabato.

The South Cotabato provincial police identified the fatality as Jalman Orandatang of the Ansar Khilafa Philippines group of the Dawlah Islamiya that uses the flag of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria as its banner.

Orandatang was killed in a joint police-military operation in Barangay Kablon  in Tupi, South Cotabato for resisting arrest.

4 arrested in Maguindanao for keeping firearms in car 

MAGUINDANAO --- The police detained four suspected members of an Islamic State-inspired group for keeping assault rifles in their vehicle intercepted in Datu Abdullah Sangki town Friday.

Police Lt. Judith Ambong, chief of the Datu Abdullah municipal police, said Saturday Taib Guimbalangan 55, Mercipol Zainudin, 27, Ali Mohammad, 25 and the 20-year-old Farhan Saludin are now in their custody, to be prosecuted for illegal possession of firearms.

6 BIFF men in Pagalungan return to fold of law

MAGUINDANAO --- Six more members of the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters surrendered to the military Wednesday. 

Major Gen. Juvymax Uy, commander of the Army’s 6th Infantry Division, said Thursday the group yielded through backchannel intercession by officials of the 90th Infantry Battalion and Mayor Salik Mamasabulod of Pagalungan town in Maguindanao.

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