The firefight that erupted during the service of search and arrest warrants by the Philippine National Police (PNP) and Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) against former Maimbung, Sulu Vice Mayor Pando Mudjasan left one police officer dead and nine other troops wounded, AFP Chief Gen. Andres...
A joint law enforcement operation conducted by the Philippine National Police (PNP) and Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) to arrest former Maimbung, Sulu vice mayor Pando Mudjasan ended up in a gunbattle on Saturday morning, June 24. Lt. Col. Enrico Gil Ileto, chief of AFP public affairs...
ILIGAN CITY – Joint Task Force Sulu commander Major Gen. Ignatius Patrimonio has commended the 1103rd Infantry Brigade for the surrender of a 13-year-old Egyptian Abu Sayyaf Group fighter and subleader in Indanan, Sulu on Wednesday, June 14. Patrimonio attributed this achievement to intelligence...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – A teenage foreign terrorist fighter who was an Abu Sayyaf sub-leader surrendered to the military authorities at the 1103rd Infantry Brigade headquarters in Indanan, Sulu on Wednesday, June 14. A Western Mindanao Command report said that the foreign fighter, 13-year-old Egyptian...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – Two siblings identified as high-value drug targets were killed while seven of their accomplices were arrested during a buy-bust operation in Barangay San Raymundo, Jolo, Sulu on Sunday, June 3. Police Lt. Col. Annidul Sali, Jolo Municipal Police Station chief, identified the...
BUTUAN CITY – The Office of Civil Defense (OCD) in Southwestern Mindanao and Sulu Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (PDRRMC) reported no damage or fatalities from a magnitude-4.6 that rocked the province before dawn on Saturday, June 3. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – Lawmen seized P20.4-million worth of shabu abandoned by a drug courier at a checkpoint in Luuk town in Sulu province on Saturday, April 8. THE combined team of police, PDEA, and Coast Guard personnel stand behind P20.4-million worth of shabu they seized from a drug courier in...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – The Philippine Navy intercepted a motor launch carrying hundreds of drums of smuggled fuel products in the sea of Sulu on Saturday, April 1. THE Navy seized more than P9-million worth of undocumented fuel products on board the M/L Anne Nur in the sea of Sulu. (NFWM photo)...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – An Abu Sayyaf Group fighter was killed while two soldiers were wounded in two encounters in Sulu on Monday, Feb. 20. Major Gen. Ignatius Patrimonio, Joint Task Force Sulu commander, said government troops first engaged the ASG in Barangay Kabbon Takas, Patikul when the 111th...
ILIGAN CITY -- Two Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) members surrendered to the military in Sulu on Monday morning, Feb. 6. Joint Task Force Sulu Commander Maj. Gen. Ignatius Patrimonio identified the ASG members who surrendered as Hadjang, 50, and Nadz, 20. The Two ASG men submitted themselves to the 6th...
ILIGAN CITY -- Joint Task Force Sulu commander Major General Ignatius Patrimonio confirmed that a member of Abu Sayyaf Group was killed in an encounter with the military in Sulu on Monday, Feb. 20, 2023. The armed confrontation between the group of Mudzrimar Sawadjaan, a.k.a. Mundi, and troops of...
SEVEN Abu Sayyaf fighters were killed in an encounter with police in Sulu on Sunday, Feb. 5. (Photo courtesy of PRO-BARMM) ZAMBOANGA CITY – Police killed seven Abu Sayyaf Group fighters in a shootout in Sulu on Sunday, Feb. 5. Gunmen fired at lawmen serving a warrant of arrest against murder...
