Mindanao Armed Conflict

Military forces in Lanao del Sur on Tuesday briefly clashed with Moro extremists in Lanao del Sur and recovered a machine gun, the military said today.

But the object of military action managed to elude arrest while fighting was raging on Tuesday afternoon.

Elements of 51st Infantry Battalion missed Dawlah Islamiya-Lanao leader Abu Zacariah, the alleged highest leader of IS linked Moro extremists in Mindanao.

Soldiers were checking on intelligence reports that Zacaria, the alleged emir of IS in the Philippines, was on board a white Mitsubishi adventure.

CAMP SIONGCO, Maguindanao – One of the gunmen involved in the killing of 44 police officers in Mamasapano, Maguindanao in 2015 was killed during law enforcement operations in Datu Saudi Ampatuan municipality, the Army said Sunday.

Lt. Colonel Michael Glenn Manansala, 6th Infantry Battalion commander, said joint police and Army operatives were to serve a warrant of arrest against Bansir Samaon when resisted and, using his caliber .45 pistol, opened fire on state forces at about noon Friday.

COTABATO CITY - Four more members of the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters trained in fabrication of improvised explosive devices surrendered to the Army Friday. 

They first turned in two .30 caliber Garand rifles, an M14 rifle, a bolt-action sniper rifle and explosives before they renounced their membership with the BIFF during a simple surrender rite at Camp Leono in Barangay Kalandagan in Tacurong City.

COTABATO CITY -- Soldiers and policemen shot dead a courier of explosives they were to arrest in an anti-terror operation in Maguindanao del Sur Thursday that turned haywire when he resisted, provoking a clash. 

The slain Bansir Samaon, a member of the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters and known by aliases Bungo and Malang, died on the spot from multiple bullet wounds.

COTABATO CITY - SUNOD-SUNOD na putok mula sa matatas na kalibre ng armas ang sumalubong sa mga residente ng Brgy. Dapiawan, Datu Saudi, Ampatuan, Maguindanao del Sur, unang araw matapos ang Ramadhan kahapon.

Kaya naman sa Dapiawan Elementary School na nagsagawa ng Ed’l Ft’r o ang nasa 800 mga pamilya nitong Sabado kasunod ng muling pagsiklab ng gulo sa dalawang naglalabang MILF group.

CAMP SIONGCO, Maguindanao del Norte – Patay ang isang -suporta ng teroristang BIFF na isa ring IED courier matapos isinagawa ang isang Law Enforcement Support Operation sa bayan ng Shariff Saydona Mustapha, Maguindanao del Sur tanghali nitong Byernes (Abril 21, 2023).

Kinilala ni Lieutenant Colonel Udgie Villan, Acting Commanding Officer ng 33IB ang suspek na si alyas Datu Guibo na subject ng implemetasyon ng warrant of arrest ng pinagsanib na pwersa ng 33rd Infantry (Makabayan) Battalion at Provincial Mobile Force Company ng Maguindanao del Sur Police Provincial Office.

COTABATO CITY --- A gunman shot dead Thursday night in General Santos City a police intelligence agent involved in anti-terror surveillance missions. 

Brig. Gen. Jimili Macaraeg, director of the Police Regional Office-12, on Friday identified the slain policeman as Corporal Razul Alongan of the Tambler Police Precinct in General Santos City.

Alongan was inside an eatery in Barangay Fatima in General Santos City when a man approached from behind, pulled out a .45 caliber pistol from a sling back and shot him in the head, killing him on the spot.

CAMP SIONGCO, Maguindanao del Norte – Arestado ang dalawang snatchers matapos na madakip sa mas pinaigting na military checkpoint sa Brgy. Dumaguil, Norala, South Cotabato.

Kinilala ang mga supek na sina Asim Fahad Mamalinta, 20-anyos at Ramil Ali, 32-anyos, kapwa residente ng Salimsi, Buluan, Maguindanao del Sur. Nakumpiska naman ng pulisya mula sa pag-iingat ng mga suspek ang isang Cal .38 revolver, illegal na droga at tatlong cellphones.

KORONADAL CITY - Authorities are certain the Dawlah Islamiya and the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters together perpetrated the bombing at noontime Monday of a bus in Isulan, Sultan Kudarat that hurt seven passengers.

Reports have been circulating in central Mindanao since Monday night purporting that the bombing was to avenge the deaths of 17 leaders of both groups in clashes with pursuing soldiers and policemen in central Mindanao in the past 16 months.

GEN.SANTOS CITY – Seven individuals incurred minor injuries in an explosion inside a passenger bus at Isulan Public Terminal, Brgy. Kalawag 2, Isulan, Sultan Kudarat at around 12:20 PM this day.