Marawi

At least four people were killed and at least 50 injured after a bomb exploded during a morning Catholic Mass in a university gymnasium in Marawi.

Two months after terrorists launched an assault on one of the biggest southern cities in the Philippines, the fighting is dragging on, and President Rodrigo Duterte says he is prepared to wait for a year for it to end.

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has asked Congress to extend martial law in the southern island of Mindanao until the end of the year to crush rebels inspired by the ISIS terrorist group, his spokesman said today.

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte was preparing to make a deal with Islamic State-inspired militants in the days after they laid siege to a southern city, but aborted the plan without explanation, an intermediary involved in the process said.

Trapped in a war zone, Carmalia Baunto's husband, Nixon, had been trying for weeks to stay alive as Islamist guerrillas and Philippine government forces battled for control of Marawi City.

The Philippine military said terrorists fled from a primary school in the south on Wednesday, leaving behind 31 hostages unharmed, including 12 children, after a day-long gunbattle with troops. There was no word of casualties in the incident at Pigcawayan town, which is about 190 km south of Marawi City, where fighting between government troops and...

An Australian television journalist was shot in the neck on Thursday as he reported from a southern Philippine city where terrorists are battling government troops, but he did not suffer major injuries.

Armed US troops are on the ground near the besieged Marawi City in the Philippines, but they are in a support role and not participating in fighting ISIS terrorists, a Philippines military spokesman said today.

Marking Philippine's 119th Independence Day, Philippine soldiers raised the national flag today in a tearful ceremony, while struggling to force out ISIS terrorists from Marawi.

US forces are providing the Philippines with technical assistance to end a siege of the southern town of Marawi by militants allied to ISIS but it has no boots on the ground, the Philippines military said on Saturday.

Thirteen Philippine marines have been killed in the battle for Marawi city, a military spokesman said on Saturday, a setback in the government's quest to retake the southern town from terrorists allied to ISIS.

The ISIS terrorists holed up in the southern Philippines town of Marawi have been reduced to a "small resistance" after troops crippled their logistics and some fighters have fled from the battle, military officials said on Thursday.

At least four people were killed and at least 50 injured after a bomb exploded during a morning Catholic Mass in a university gymnasium in Marawi.

Two months after terrorists launched an assault on one of the biggest southern cities in the Philippines, the fighting is dragging on, and President Rodrigo Duterte says he is prepared to wait for a year for it to end.

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has asked Congress to extend martial law in the southern island of Mindanao until the end of the year to crush rebels inspired by the ISIS terrorist group, his spokesman said today.

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte was preparing to make a deal with Islamic State-inspired militants in the days after they laid siege to a southern city, but aborted the plan without explanation, an intermediary involved in the process said.

Trapped in a war zone, Carmalia Baunto's husband, Nixon, had been trying for weeks to stay alive as Islamist guerrillas and Philippine government forces battled for control of Marawi City.

The Philippine military said terrorists fled from a primary school in the south on Wednesday, leaving behind 31 hostages unharmed, including 12 children, after a day-long gunbattle with troops. There was no word of casualties in the incident at Pigcawayan town, which is about 190 km south of Marawi City, where fighting between government troops and...

An Australian television journalist was shot in the neck on Thursday as he reported from a southern Philippine city where terrorists are battling government troops, but he did not suffer major injuries.

Armed US troops are on the ground near the besieged Marawi City in the Philippines, but they are in a support role and not participating in fighting ISIS terrorists, a Philippines military spokesman said today.

Marking Philippine's 119th Independence Day, Philippine soldiers raised the national flag today in a tearful ceremony, while struggling to force out ISIS terrorists from Marawi.

US forces are providing the Philippines with technical assistance to end a siege of the southern town of Marawi by militants allied to ISIS but it has no boots on the ground, the Philippines military said on Saturday.

Thirteen Philippine marines have been killed in the battle for Marawi city, a military spokesman said on Saturday, a setback in the government's quest to retake the southern town from terrorists allied to ISIS.

The ISIS terrorists holed up in the southern Philippines town of Marawi have been reduced to a "small resistance" after troops crippled their logistics and some fighters have fled from the battle, military officials said on Thursday.