SAGUIARAN, Lanao del Sur – More than 2,000 residents here have benefitted from a medical mission at the municipal gym on Monday, June 26, held as part of the Araw ng Saguiaran Festival 2023 with the theme "Ummah (Muslim community) progress through unity."...
ILIGAN CITY – Armed Forces Western Mindanao Command chief Lt. Gen. Roy Galido said that the amir (leader) of the Daulah Islamiyah-Philippines and overall amir of the Islamic State-East Asia was killed in a joint law enforcement operation in the wee hours of Wednesday, June 14. ABU Zacharia (Photo...
ILIGAN CITY – Operating troops from the 7th and 9th Scout Ranger Company under the 3rd Scout Ranger Battalion encountered an undetermined number of Dawlah Islamiyah members in the hinterlands of Barangay Piangologan, Marogong town in Lanao del Sur at around 8:58 p.m. on Wednesday, May 31....
ZAMBOANGA CITY – Four teenage members of the Dawlah Islamiyah (DI) were apprehended by the military in Barangay Pabrika, Lanao del Sur on Thursday, May 25. Major Gen. Antonio Nafarrete, Joint Task Force ZamPeLan commander, identified one of them as 18-year-old Abu Rasas, one of the key leaders...
Four teenagers who are suspected members of the militant group Daulah Islamiyah (DI) have been apprehended by the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) in Marugong, Lanao del Sur, the military revealed on Saturday, May 27. (Courtesy of Western Mindanao Command, AFP) Maj. Andrew Linao, chief of...
ILIGAN CITY – One of the suspects in the ambush of Lanao del Sur Gov. Mamintal Adiong Jr.’s convoy was arrested by joint elements of the Philippine National Police and Philippine Army on Thursday, May 25. BARATOMO (103rd Infantry (Haribon) Brigade, PA photo) The suspect, identified as Lomala...
ILIGAN CITY – The military recovered a machinegun following a short gun battle with the Daulah Islamiyah-Lanao (DI-Lanao) in Pualas, Lanao del Sur on Tuesday afternoon, May 2. The 51st Infantry Battalion received a report that DI-Lanao leader Abu Zacariah was traveling onboard a white Mitsubishi...
CAMP SK PENDATUN, Maguindanao del Norte (PNA) – Government forces killed during an operation on Wednesday, May 3, the alleged mastermind in the ambush of Lanao del Sur Gov. Mamintal Adiong Jr. last Feb. 17. Police Col. Robert Daculan, Lanao del Sur police provincial director, said private armed...
CAMP SK PENDATUN, Maguindanao Norte (PNA) – Heavily armed men traded gunshots in the middle of the densely populated town center of Malabang, Lanao del Sur on Tuesday night, May 2, leaving a cop and three civilians injured. Police Capt. Jerome Baliuag, deputy chief of the Malabang Municipal Police...
CAMP SK PENDATUN, Maguindanao del Norte (PNA) – Lanao del Sur police killed three alleged members of the Dawlah Islamiyah and arrested seven others during a predawn law enforcement operation in Bubong town on Sunday, April 2. Brig. Gen. Allan Cruz Nobleza, newly installed director of the Police...
ZAMBOANGA CITY (PNA) – A fifth suspect in the Feb. 17 ambush of Lanao del Sur Gov. Mamintal Alonto Adiong Jr. was killed in a shootout with authorities, police said on Thursday, March 30. The wife of the group’s leader allegedly involved in the ambush was also captured during the clash that...
COTABATO CITY (PNA) – Police and Marine field units are hot on the trail of suspects behind the weekend ambush in Marogong town, Lanao del Sur province that killed a Marine sergeant and injured three others. “We have identified the suspects and a joint police and Marine manhunt operation is...
