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Big southern political bloc wants clean, safe BARMM polls
COTABATO CITY (Saturday, September 6, 2025) — A large bloc of local executives and sectoral leaders in the Bangsamoro region have reaffirmed commitment to Malacañang’s Mindanao peace process and promised support for multi-sector efforts to have peaceful and credible regional parliamentary elections on October 13, 2025. Members of the influential Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim…
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Region 12 Cops seize P15.7-M worth smuggled cigarettes
COTABATO CITY (Friday, September 5, 2025) — Policemen seized P15.7 million worth of imported cigarettes in an anti-smuggling operation in Barangay Central Panatan in Pigcawayan, Cotabato on Thursday, September 4. The two van-type trucks carrying the cigarettes, produced in Indonesia, were intercepted at a stretch of a highway in Barangay Central Panatan by combined personnel…
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8 more BIFF members surrender in Maguindanao del Sur
COTABATO CITY (Friday, September 5, 2025) — Eight more members of the now defunct Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters surrendered to the military in Barangay Kabengi in Datu Saudi Ampatuan on Thursday, September 4. Three of the eight BIFF members are experts in fabrication of improvised explosive devices that they rig with electronic blasting contraptions that…
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187 poor villagers in BARMM town benefit from medical mission
COTABATO CITY (Thursday, September 4, 2025) — Up to 187 marginalized villagers in a newly-created Bangsamoro town in Cotabato province, covering barangays where government forces and Moro rebels figured in deadly clashes in past decades, benefitted from a multi-sector medical mission on Wednesday, September 3. Local executives in Ligawasan municipality told reporters on Thursday, September…
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3 men busted in PDEA-9 drug den raid
COTABATO CITY (Thursday, September 4, 2025) — Agents of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency-9 and policemen clamped down three men in whose hideout in Barangay Lunzuran in Zamboanga City they found P115,600 worth of shabu in a search operation on Wednesday night, September 3. Bryan Babang, director of PDEA-9, told reporters on Thursday, September 4,…
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Shabu dealer killed in South Cotabato police operation
COTABATO CITY (Thursday, September 4, 2025) — Policemen shot dead an elusive large-scale peddler of marijuana and shabu in an anti-narcotics operation in Barangay Colongulo in Surallah, South Cotabato on Tuesday, September 2. Municipal officials and barangay leaders confirmed to reporters on Thursday, September 4, that the slain 39-year-old Stephen Dubria Dagismol was a longtime…
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18 Dawlah terrorists, 2 NPAs surrender in Central Mindanao
COTABATO CITY (Wednesday, September 3, 2025) — Another group of Dawlah Islamiya members and two New People’s Army guerillas had surrendered to military officials and local executives in separate rites in two provinces where they each pledged allegiance to the government. The 18 violent religious extremists first turned in their combat weapons and explosives to…
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Father, son killed, P1.6-M shabu seized in police operation
COTABATO CITY (Tuesday, September 2, 2025) — A 52-year-old father and his son were killed in a gunfight with policemen who had procured from them P1.6 million worth of shabu in an entrapment operation on Monday, September 1, in Barangay Bongued in Datu Odin Sinsuat, Maguindanao del Norte that turned awry. Local executives and ranking…