Duterte aide says martial law to end in southern Philippines


Philippine troops on patrol after clashes between government troops and rebels inked to Islamic State in Marawi City, Mindanao in southern Philippines, in May 2017. – EPA pic, December 10, 2019.

PRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte will lift martial law in the southern Philippines by year’s end, his spokesman said today, more than two years after it was imposed in an attempt to stop the Islamic State group gaining a foothold there.

Duterte put the Mindanao region under military rule in May 2017, hours after gunmen flying the black IS flag seized the mainly Muslim city of Marawi, sparking a five-month battle that left 1,200 people dead.


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