Survival has become a daily battle in Marawi, the capital of Mindanao’s Lanao del Sur province and whose mostly Muslim 200,000 population make the city the biggest Islamic community in what is ...
Nearly 300 people have died in fighting between Philippine forces and the Islamic State-linked Maute group which seized the southern city of Marawi on May 23. The attack by Maute and its allies on ...
The Philippines armed forces controls nearly all of the city, they have been saying; the black-clad militants, who so surprised them by seizing Marawi in the name of so-called Islamic State on 23 ...
Dubai resident Inshirah Taib, from Marawi City in southern Philippines, has two contrasting pictures of her hometown and favourite city: Once a centre of Islamic grandeur and tradition ...
he heard the opening shots of what would become the long-running siege of Marawi City - a sound to put panic in the hearts of locals. Fighting between Islamic State-inspired extremists and local ...
Most of Marawi's 200,000 residents have fled ... linked to the so-called Islamic State, stormed the city after an attempt by Philippine troops to capture Hapilon. The Maute group is named after ...
It consists of Marawi City, the whole province of Lanao del Sur and the municipalities of Sultan Naga ... It is around the shores of this lake that the Maranao culture and Islamic religion have ...
The deadly bombing of a Catholic Mass in Marawi City ended years of relative peace ... in youth radicalization among supporters of the Islamic State. Weapons from the insurgency in southern ...
Even the body of the husband of Tamano's cousin, Aleem Saipodin Gato, an Islamic preacher and former councillor of Marawi City, who is believed to have been killed by the Mautes is still not ...