Olowan Magarang recalls the moment he knew it was time to flee his home in Marawi, on the southern Philippines' island of Mindanao. It was in May 2017, two days into a siege by militants aligned with ...

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More than four months of fighting between Philippine government security forces and terrorist fighters claiming to have links with the so-called Islamic State left Marawi a virtual ghost city. The ...

MANILA (Reuters) - Philippine troops clashed briefly with pro-Islamic State militants in the volatile south on Saturday, the army said, in their first engagement since the government retook Marawi ...

After more than two weeks of bloodshed, brutality and the creeping danger of starvation, Marawi remains a city under siege. Philippine authorities are reckoning with a mounting death toll — which by ...

I got it. The sooner the context of the crisis can be brought into the open and explained, the sooner potential solutions can be drawn. We agreed that the purely military means to resolve the Marawi ...

The government vowed to rebuild the city after the 2017 conflict with militants linked to ISIS. But more than 100,000 people are still in... The last time Mustapha Alauya L. Pacasum saw his ancestral ...