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P2.7-M worth imported cigarettes seized in Basilan
COTABATO CITY (September 29, 2025, Monday) — A Philippine Navy contingent seized P2.7 million worth of cigarettes from Indonesia in an anti-smuggling operation a few miles off the shores of Hadji Muhtamad town in the island province of P2.7-M worth imported cigarettes seized in Basilan on Sunday, September 28. Officials of the Police Regional Office-Bangsamoro…
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PDEA-BARMM entraps barangay councilor in Tawi-Tawi
COTABATO CITY (Sept. 25, 2025) — Agents of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency seized P136,000 worth of shabu from a barangay councilor who fell in an entrapment operation in Barangay Ballak in Tandubas, Tawi-Tawi on Wednesday, September 24. Municipal officials in Tandubas, an island town in Tawi-Tawi, told reporters on Friday, September 26, that the…
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2026 Cotabato provincial gov’t budget now under study
COTABATO CITY (September 28, 2025) —- Officials, led by Gov. Emmylou Taliño-Mendoza, are now studying the fund requisites for the Cotabato provincial government’s public service activities in 2026, partly focused on the socio-economic empowerment of the culturally-pluralistic communities in the province. Cotabato province has mixed Muslim, Christian and non-Moro indigenous communities and is host to…
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Timbers from Maguindanao del Norte forest seized
COTABATO CITY (September 27, 2025, Saturday) —- An inter-agency anti-illegal logging team confiscated 1,344 board feet of timber flitches in an operation near a tropical rainforest in Buldon town in Maguindanao del Norte on Friday, September 26. Bangsamoro regional officials told reporters on Saturday, September 27, that the Lawaan timbers, cut into halves, costing no…
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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…