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Drug den in Cotabato City shut, 5 operators nabbed
Anti-narcotics agents seized P102,000 worth of shabu from five drug den operators entrapped in Barangay Poblacion Mother in this city at about noon Thursday, August 21, 2025. Ranking members of the multi-sector Cotabato City Peace and Order Council, which is led by Mayor Bruce Matabalao, told reporters that the suspects, Datu Rasid Candao Emba, Marlon
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16 explosives found in abandoned NPA lair in South Cotabato
Soldiers found 16 large home-made compact explosives, which can be used as landmines or rigged with blasting devices that can be detonated from a distance using mobile phones, in an operation in Barangay Maan in T’boli, South Cotabato on Wednesday, August 20, 2025. Army Major Gen. Donald Gumiran, commander of the 6th Infantry Division, said
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3 shabu dealers busted in PDEA Tawi-Tawi operation
Agents of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency had clamped down three seafarers, selling shabu from one island to another, in an entrapment operation Barangay Boki in Mapun, Tawi-Tawi on Wednesday, August 20, 2025. Local executives in Mapun, an island town in Tawi-Tawi in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, told reporters on Thursday, August
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Wanted person killed, cohort arrested in Maguindanao del Norte
A murder suspect, also a known longtime narcotics trafficker, was killed while his companion was arrested in a police operation on Tuesday night, August 19, 2025 in Barangay Tamontaka in Datu Odin Sinsuat town in Maguindanao del Norte. Brig. Gen. Jaysen De Guzman, director of the Police Regional Office-Bangsamoro Autonomous Region, told reporters on Wednesday
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MILF ranting on alleged lapses in decommissioning process
COTABATO CITY (August 18,2025) — The chairman of the Moro Islamic Liberation has barred MILF members from participating in decommissioning activities after accusing the government of reneging from its obligation to provide guerillas who had availed of the process with support needed for their reintegration into society. The Office of the Presidential Adviser on Peace,
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2 hospitals get funds for bills of poor BARMM residents
COTABATO CITY — Two medical institutions in Central Mindanao — the Cotabato Sanitarium Hospital in Sultan Kudarat in Maguindanao del Norte and the Doctor Ramon Pesante Clinic & Hospital in Libungan in Cotabato — had received funds from the office of a Bangsamoro regional lawmaker, earmarked for bills of marginalized patients from barangays in the
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Booming DBS town gets fire truck from BARMM
COTABATO CITY, Bangsamoro Region (August 17, 2025) — Local executives in Datu Blah Sinsuat town in Maguindanao del Norte and their constituents and the vice governor of the province were elated with the release on Friday, August 15, by the Bangsamoro local government ministry of a new fire truck for the municipality. The seaside Datu
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4 NPAs killed in Bukidnon clash
Four members of the now weakened New People’s Army were killed in an encounter with patrolling soldiers in Barangay Dumalaguing in Impasug-ong, Bukidnon on Wednesday, August 13, 2025. Officials of the Army’s 4th Infantry Division and Brigadier General Siegfried Tubalado, commander of the 403rd Infantry Brigade, separately said on Saturday, August 16, that the four