COTABATO CITY – Armed hostilities that erupted Monday in a remote village in Matalam, North Cotabato, involving Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) factions have left seven persons dead, including an MILF field commander. The fatality was identified as MILF commander Salidato Langalen, whose...
LAMITAN CITY, Basilan – The Department of Social Welfare and Development has distributed relief goods to families displaced by clan violence in Tipo-Tipo town, Basilan province, authorities said Wednesday. Dr. Nur-Khan Istarul, provincial board member, said 2,500 family food packs were...
COTABATO CITY – Three Moro fighters were killed and three others were wounded after warring Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) factions clashed in Shariff Saydona Mustapha, Maguindanao del Sur, police said Monday. The encounter on Sunday morning involved the groups of commanders Malibuteng and...
RAJAH BUAYAN, Maguindanao del Sur – Two warring Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) factions here reached a peaceful resolution to their misunderstanding and clan conflict on Thursday. Brig. Gen. Edgar L. Catu, commander of the 601st Infantry Brigade, facilitated the “reunion” of Teng Mamo...
DAVAO CITY – The mayor of Pigcawayan town in North Cotabato province has stepped in to peacefully resolve the land conflict that resulted in fighting between two families in Barangay Banucagon. THE local government of Pigcawayan in North Cotabato distributes hot meals to displaced residents of...
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY – Peace is expected to reign between two warring families in Lanao del Sur after two members – 26-year-old Jalal Norol Balindong Pacalna and 19-year-old Ressanya Hessa Dipatuan-Ducol – were married on July 8 at Xavier Estates Sports and Country Club here....
DATU SAUDI AMPATUAN, Maguindanao del Sur (PNA) – A three-day armed hostilities between two warring Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) groups in two adjoining barangays here has displaced some 800 families or about 4,000 individuals, local officials said on Monday, April 24. At least eight rebels...
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY – The authorities are welcoming all the possible angles to identify the real motive on the ambush of Lanao del Sur governor Mamintal Adiong Jr along the provincial road of Barangay Bato Bato, in Maguing town on Friday, Feb. 17. Adiong was wounded in the incident perpetrated by...
COTABATO CITY (PNA) – Two persons died while five others were injured when around 20 gunmen attacked a Moro community on the outskirts of this city before dawn on Wednesday, Jan. 18. AERIAL view of Cotabato CIty. (Wikipedia) Major Sainodin Benasing, city police Station 3 commander, said the 3...
COTABATO CITY (PNA) – Police and military forces are jointly hunting down two men who ambushed and killed a former field commander of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) in Datu Hoffer, Maguindanao, Wednesday, July 6. Police Lt. Billy Fontanilla, Datu Hoffer police chief, identified the...