Over a hundred members of the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF) linked to the Islamic State occupied the Datu Paglas town market in Maguindanao for several hours on Saturday morning, May 8, forcing families to flee their homes.
The anti-terror council (ATC) has designated as terrorists 19 people it alleges to be central committee members of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP), authorizing the Anti-Money Laundering Council (AMLC) to start freezing their assets under a law whose constitutionality is being challenged in the Supreme Court.
Authorities captured nine suspected members of the terrorist Dawlah Islamiya-Maute Group but failed to arrest their leader during a raid in Lanao del Sur on Saturday, May 29.
The Naval Forces Western Mindanao (NFWM) destroyed Friday 219 assorted firearms, the majority of which were seized in military operations in Central Mindanao, Sulu, and Tawi-Tawi.
A regular member of the Communist Party of the Philippines-New People’s Army (CPP-NPA) and nine Milisya ng Bayan (MB) members surrendered to the government last May 6.
Philippine National Police (PNP) chief, Gen. Guillermo Eleazar, on Wednesday expressed hope that newly-installed Special Action Force (SAF) director, Brig. Gen. Felipe Natividad, will continue to wage a relentless battle against terrorism, insurgency, and other threats.
Saying that the government “cannot wage a war against his own people,” President Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday renewed his appeal for peace in Mindanao, days after the Islamic State-linked Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF) seized a town market in Datu, Paglas in Maguindanao.
Anti-Terrorism Council (ATC) has tagged members of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) and local extremist groups as terrorists.
The President, fresh from visiting Jolo and Cotabato City, lamented that the BIFF and other extremist groups “continue to plunder, look for trouble and inflict violence upon the poor” in Mindanao.
In his visit to Maguindanao on Tuesday, the President accused the BIFF of “full-blown terrorism.”
Five Abu Sayyaf terrorists were killed following a gun battle that erupted during a police raid on their hideout near Taman Sri Arjuna in Beaufort, a small town in Sabah, reports said Tuesday, but among those slain was actually captured alive, along with seven other militants a week earlier in the same area.
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