Pigcawayan Town

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...

Muslim guerrillas killed ten civilians in the majority Catholic Philippines over Christmas, the military said today, with some Christians in the affected areas now too scared to sleep in their homes.

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...

Muslim guerrillas killed ten civilians in the majority Catholic Philippines over Christmas, the military said today, with some Christians in the affected areas now too scared to sleep in their homes.