[Inquirer] Nine Philippine troops were wounded when Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters set off an improvised explosive device in Rajah Buayan, Maguindanao on Friday evening.
Maguindanao police provincial director Agustin Tello, said soldiers were passing by a dirt road in Barangay Pidsandawan when the explosion occurred. Tello said the infantry men were on their way to the battalion command post in Barangay Zapakan, also in Rajah Buayan, when the blast took place.
After the explosion, armed men positioned nearby opened fire on the government troops. Outnumbered and injured, the soldiers returned fire as they sped off.
Abu Misri Mama, speaking for the BIFF, later claimed that his group, which pledged allegiance to the Islamic State, was behind the ambush. He said none of their men was harmed in the brief exchange of fire with the fleeing soldiers.
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[Inquirer] The Philippine military says only about 60 Maute militants are still fighting in a bloody siege of southern Marawi city that has left 630 people dead, including more than 470 gunmen, and dragged on for more than two months.
Military spokesman Restituto Padilla said Friday that most of the rebel leaders are believed to still be with the main group of gunmen fighting in an area less than one square kilometer.
Troops and police have arrested 59 men suspected of being on their way to reinforce the Marawi insurgents. The suspects were flown under heavy guard Friday to the Department of Justice in Manila, where they denied before prosecutors that they meant to back up the Maute militants.
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[Al Jazeera] Troops in the Philippines have killed four communist rebels during festivities in the eastern part of the country, a regional police spokesperson said.
The slain fighters included a regional commander of the New People's Army, the armed wing of the rebel group known as the Communist Party of the Philippines, police superintendent Nonito Marquez said on Friday.
No casualties were reported on the military side, Marquez said.
The soldiers were on patrol when they encountered about 30 rebels in a village in the province of Sorsogon, 383 kilometres south-east of Manila, he said.
The firefight marked the latest clash between communist rebels and government forces since President Rodrigo Duterte scrapped peace talks after a series of attacks by the rebels.
Government troops are also fighting in the southern Philippines against hundreds of fighters allied with the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... of Iraq and the Levant group (ISIS, also known as ISIS) who have laid siege to Marawi City since May 23.
[Bangkok Post] Two Thai border patrol policemen treated for shrapnel injuries after a roadside bomb blast in Narathiwat province on Wednesday evening were re-admitted to hospital on Thursday morning. The pair were released shortly after receiving treatment at a hospital.
They were members of an eight-man unit patroling a road in Rueso district where the bomb went off. The others escaped uninjured.
The bomb was concealed in a bush along the roadside and detonated by radio. The blast left a crater about 50 centimeters deep and a meter wide. Investigators found a spot about 30m off the road where the bombers were believed to have waited for the patrol unit to arrive and then detonated the bomb.
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[Inquirer] The Philippine military says only about 60 Maute militants are still fighting in a bloody siege of southern Marawi city that has left 630 people dead, including more than 470 gunmen, and dragged on for more than two months.
[Al Jazeera] Troops in the Philippines have killed four communist rebels during 
[Bangkok Post] Two Thai border patrol policemen treated for shrapnel injuries after a roadside bomb blast in Narathiwat province on Wednesday evening were re-admitted to hospital on Thursday morning. The pair were released shortly after receiving treatment at a hospital. 
