The military said Monday, Dec. 8, that it was pursuing the remaining members of the Dawlah Islamiyah–Hassan Group (DI-HG) following the death of its most senior leader and top bomb expert in an operation in Shariff Aguak, Maguindanao del Sur on Sunday, Dec. 7. Ustads Mohammad Usman Solaiman,...
BUTUAN CITY – The Police Regional Office-10 arrested an alleged logistics provider of the Dawlah Islamiyah-Maute Group and former kidnap-for-ransom group leader in Balo-i, Lanao del Norte, on Thursday, Nov. 6. The 56-year-old suspect was apprehended on warrants for kidnap-for-ransom, frustrated...
COTABATO CITY – Eight suspected local terrorists were arrested during a joint military-police law enforcement operation in Maguindanao del Sur on Monday. Brig. Gen. Edgar Catu, commander of the Army 601st Infantry Brigade, said the suspects were arrested after troops responded to civilians '...
KORONADAL CITY – A suspected member of the Dawlah Islamiyah terrorist group was killed after resisting arrest during the serving of six warrants in Maguindanao del Sur on Monday afternoon. Police Capt. Joel Lebrilla, Rajah Buayan police chief, identified the fatality as Moner Usman, a resident of...
ILIGAN CITY – Three members of the lawless Dawlah Islamiyah-Maute Group (DI-MG) were killed and three others were captured in a clash with government troops in Lanao del Sur, the military said Sunday. Brig. Gen. Billy dela Rosa, 103rd Infantry Brigade commander, said the gunbattle erupted while...
COTABATO CITY – Authorities arrested a suspected member of the Dawlah Islamiyah (DI) local terror group in an operation carried out in Maguindanao del Sur on Wednesday afternoon. In a report Thursday, Police Brig. Gen. Jaysen de Guzman, director of the Police Regional Office-Bangsamoro Autonomous...
The Philippine Army (PA) will continue its military offensives against the radical group Dawlah Islamiyah (DI) in Mindanao following the death of two of its members during an armed encounter in Mamasapano, Maguindanao. Tahir Salim Suweb, 41, and Benladin Adi Kamid, 23, died during a military...
COTABATO CITY – Government forces arrested an alleged bomb-making expert of the Dawlah Islamiyah (DI) local terrorist group following a clash in Sultan Kudarat, Maguindanao del Norte. Brig. Gen. Vladimir R. Cagara, commander of the 1st Brigade Combat Team (1BCT), said soldiers were responding to...
CAMP SIONGCO, Maguindanao del Norte – Soldiers reported Monday the killing of two suspected local terrorists, believed to be behind recent atrocities against civilians and soldiers in Maguindanao del Sur. The two slain terrorists were identified as Dawlah Islamiyah (DI)-Hassan Group members...
COTABATO CITY – After months of covert operations, agents of the National Bureau of Investigation in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (NBI-BARMM) on Thursday arrested a suspected bomber linked to Mindanao bus bombings and bus burning in 2021. NBI-BARMM Director Jonathan Balite...
ILIGAN CITY – Soldiers neutralized a notorious leader of the Dawlah Islamiyah-Maute Group (DI-MG) in a 15-minute encounter on May 9 in Barangay Tambo, Bacolod-Kalawi, Lanao del Sur. Soldiers identified the fatality as Nasser Daud, alias Mas’od and Mahater. Daud was No. 1 in the government’s...
Soldiers killed four members of the Dawlah Islamiyah-Hasan Group in an encounter in Barira, Maguindanao del Norte on Monday morning, March 17. WAR materials recovered from the Dawlah Islamiyah-Hasan Group in Barira, Maguindanao del Norte. (FB) The 6th Marine Company of the Marine Battalion Landing...
