MANILA: Philippine lawmakers voted to retain martial law on the southern island of Mindanao until the end of the year, giving President Rodrigo Duterte more time to tackle armed extremists allied ...

MANILA: President Rodrigo Duterte will not lift martial law in Mindanao even if radical leaders and Marawi City siege instigators Isnilon Hapilon, Omar Maute, and Malaysian Dr Mahmud Ahmad are all ...

Now he is facing a different fight. When Marawi hostilities broke out, Duterte declared martial law for 60 days across Mindanao. “The dream of the Maute Group, which has pledged allegiance to ...

Rodrigo Duterte (2017): Context: Declared martial law in Mindanao during the siege of Marawi by Islamist militants. Outcome: Martial law lasted until 2019 to address terrorism concerns.

President Duterte declares Martial Rule in Mindanao in the wake of the terror attacks and siege of parts of Marawi City by members of the Maute group and the Abu ...

The president, Ferdinand ‘Bongbong’ Marcos, whose father in 20 years as a dictatorial president imposed martial law, is ...

Duterte cut short his trip to Russia to return to Manila after declaring martial law over the southern island of Mindanao.

MANILA — Malacañang stood firm on Tuesday, Jan. 7, that neither martial law nor term extension is part of President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr.’s agenda following the reorganization of the National ...

The entire region of Mindanao is still under martial law, which was implemented in 2017 after clashes between the army and militants linked to IS. Martial law allows the use of the military to ...

But the harassment intensified, emboldened by former president Rodrigo Duterte’s imposition of martial law in Mindanao in May 2017 and two months later, an open threat to bomb lumad schools.

The fight against poverty has been long-drawn. The highest poverty rate came after the martial law regime. The country’s poverty index was at its worst at 44.2 percent in 1985 in a population of ...

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