The Philippines military said Hapilon was likely wounded in the raids but managed to escape to Marawi, where he joined up with the Maute group before plotting the siege.

The attack was intended to root out 50 fighters belonging to the Dawlah Islamiya group, which was responsible for the 2017 siege of Marawi city. After 31 months of martial law following the siege ...

Islamist militants who have overrun parts of the Philippine city of Marawi have prepared for a long siege, officials said. Security forces have been trying to flush out the gunmen since they ...

Richard Heydarian, an assistant professor of political science at Manila’s De La Salle University, told TIME a few weeks before the Marawi siege: “The Philippines is already getting a lot of ...

The attack was intended to root out 50 fighters belonging to the Dawlah Islamiya group, which was responsible for the 2017 siege of Marawi city. Despite advances being made, it has been an uphill ...

Working alongside his mother and brother in the family's photographic studio, he heard the opening shots of what would become the long-running siege of Marawi City - a sound to put panic in the ...

US special forces are helping the Philippine military retake the southern city of Marawi from IS-linked militants ... Militants have been under siege since rampaging through the southern city ...

Marawi was completely destroyed after the Maute and Abu Sayyaf groups launched an attack in 2017, holding on to the city during a five-month siege before the Philippine military recaptured it.

Within a month of the Marawi Siege in 2017, around 360,000 people in and around the conflict's epicenter were displaced. More ...

Romualdez highlighted measures taken by the House to speed up the rehabilitation of Marawi, which was destroyed following a siege by the Maute terrorist group in 2017. He cited the annual ...