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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