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Soldiers seize NPA supplies in Sultan Kudarat encounter
COTABATO CITY (September 27, 2025, Saturday) — Soldiers had seized components for improvised explosive devices, a grenade and an M16 rifle after a brief clash with New People’s Army guerillas in Barangay Kitudak in Lebak, Sultan Kudarat on Friday, September 26. Brig. Gen. Michael Santos, commander of the Army’s 603rd Infantry Brigade, told reporters on
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2 shabu peddlers linked to terror groups busted in Cotabato City
COTABATO CITY (September 27, Saturday) — Policemen arrested two shabu dealers who reportedly shared fractions of their earnings to the Dawlah Islamiya and the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters in separate entrapment operations in this city on Friday, September 26. Local officials, among them members of the Cotabato City Peace and Order Council who helped plot
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18 more local terrorists surrender in Maguindanao del Sur
COTABATO CITY (September 25, 2025) — Another group from the now weakened allies Dawlah Islamiya and Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters, five of them experts in fabrication of home-made bombs, surrendered to an Army unit in Maguindanao del Sur on Tuesday, September 23. The 18 Dawlah Islamiya and BIFF members had pledged allegiance to the government
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29 BARMM towns in Central Mindanao flooded
COTABATO CITY (September 24, 2025) — The Bangsamoro government has been extending humanitarian support since Monday, September 22, to no fewer than 97,000 villagers from flooded areas in its Special Geographic Area and two provinces that are close to the now inundated 220,000-hectare Ligawasan Delta. The Ligawasan Delta, a catch basin for more than a
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Cops seize P1.03-M worth shabu in General Santos City operation
COTABATO CITY (September 24, 2025) — Plainclothes policemen seized P1.03 million worth of shabu from a peddler entrapped in Barangay Dadiangas West in General Santos City on Monday, September 22. City officials, among them members of the multi-sector General Santos City Peace and Order Council, told reporters on Wednesday, September 24, that the now detained
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2 shabu peddlers dead, cop wounded in clash
COTABATO CITY (September 24, 2025) — Two targets of a police anti-narcotics operation were killed while a policeman was wounded in a brief clash in Barangay Camino Nuevo in Zamboanga City on Monday night, September 22. Local executives and barangay leaders told reporters on Wednesday, September 24, that the slain Harold Elum, 45, and his
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P3.4-M worth smuggled cigarettes seized by PRO-9
COTABATO CITY (September 23, 2025) — Policemen seized P3.4 million worth of imported cigarettes in separate operations in two Mindanao provinces in just two days. Officials of the Police Regional Office-9 said on Tuesday, September 22, that policemen in a checkpoint in Barangay San Pedro in Tungawan, Zamboanga Sibugay intercepted on Thursday, September 18, a
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P87-M worth narcotics seized in BARMM operations destroyed
COTABATO CITY (September 22, 2025) — Officials destroyed on Monday, September 22, using an incinerator in a renewable energy plant P87 million worth of narcotics seized in separate operations in the Bangsamoro region in the past three years. The shabu, marijuana and cocaine they burned at the powerplant of the cornstarch manufacturer Lamsan Incorporated in