Instead, Villarosa was huddled on an institutional plastic chair 38 km south of Iligan, inside Marawi City’s provincial government building. Outside, sniper fire crackled over the mosque-dotted ...

Nearly 300 people have died in fighting between Philippine forces and the Islamic State-linked Maute group which seized the southern city of Marawi on May 23. The attack by Maute and its allies on ...

Ten soldiers have been killed in a government air strike in the embattled city of Marawi in the Philippines. Eight soldiers were also wounded in the "friendly fire" incident on Wednesday ...

Seven years after the five-month-long siege that destroyed homes and displaced thousands of residents in Marawi City ended, President Marcos has created an agency to hasten the long-delayed ...

and had placed supplies in mosques and religious schools - which are off-limits for air strikes - days before seizing the city, said officials. Most of Marawi's 200,000 residents have fled the ...