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COTABATO CITY — A vice mayor belonging to a big Maranao clan and many others joined the United Bangsamoro Justice Party of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front during the inauguration of its newly-constructed headquarters building in Cotabato City on Sunday.
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine forces killed an Abu Sayyaf militant, who had been implicated in past beheadings, including of 10 Filipino marines and two kidnapped Vietnamese, in a clash in the south, police officials said Friday.
COTABATO CITY— The top leader of one of three factions in the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters, wanted for 47 heinous crimes in different courts, and his ten followers died in a clash with soldiers in Datu Saudi Ampatuan, Maguindanao del Sur on Monday.
COTABATO CITY — Policemen confiscated P2.7 million worth of shabu from a peddler entrapped in Barangay Limbo in Sultan Kudarat, Maguindanao del Norte with the help of local officials and Islamic preachers on Monday.
TEHRAN, Iran — Explosions rocked Iran's central Isfahan province on Friday, according to state media, while US officials told American news outlets that Israel carried out a retaliatory strike on the Islamic republic.
TEHRAN, Iran — A senior Revolutionary Guards general threatened on Thursday to target Israel's "nuclear facilities" if it strikes Iranian atomic sites, state media reported, anticipating retaliation for Tehran's unprecedented weekend attack.
THE Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) advised Filipinos in the Middle East to be «alert and updated» amid the volatile security situation in the region. It said that Alert Level 2, which restricts the deployment of Filipino workers in Israel, remains in place. Iran launched an unprecedented drone and missile attack on Israel Saturday in apparent retaliation for a deadly April 1 air strike on its embassy in Damascus, which killed seven of Iran's Revolutionary Guards, two of them generals. There are more than 30,000 Filipinos in Israel, mostly caregivers, while there are over 2,000 in Iran.
COTABATO CITY, Philippines — Four members of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) were killed in an ambush in Shariff Aguak, Maguindanao del Sur on Sunday.