Militiaman killed in clash with MILF over land dispute in North Cotabato
By Karlos Manlupig
An armed farmer died in a clash with Moro Islamic Liberation Front fighters in North Cotabato on Sunday.
An armed farmer died in a clash with Moro Islamic Liberation Front fighters in North Cotabato on Sunday.
Government chief negotiator Miriam Coronel-Ferrer said both the Philippine government and the MILF peace negotiators would have to be creative in keeping the talks going and ensuring that the talks lead to a comprehensive peace pact.
The spokesman of the communist-led National Democratic Front on Friday accused Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process Teresita Quintos Deles of sabotaging the peace talks.
The government “is not the stumbling block” to the peace process, Malacañang said Monday after communist rebels blamed government officials for the bleak prospects of a peace agreement.
The UN force in the Golan Heights was thrown into disarray Thursday after Austria withdrew its troops and two peacekeepers were injured as Syrian government and rebel fighters battled for a border crossing.
Two French radio journalists have gone missing in war-torn Syria, with no word from them in 24 hours, their employer Europe 1 said early Friday.
A suspected communist rebel was killed in a clash with government soldiers in Aguinaldo, Ifugao, on Sunday, police and military reports said.
The “devils” took her son away, and Evelyn Pinated, mother of slain policeman, Police Officer 2 Elmark Rodney Pinated, wants them crushed.
“We still haven’t learned our lessons,” retired Col. Ariel Querubin, a former superintendent of the Philippine Marine Corps Training Center, said of the killings of seven Marines in a clash with Abu Sayyaf bandits in Patikul, Sulu, on Saturday.
The heavy rain that fell on the Villamor Air Base in Pasay City on Sunday afternoon could not muffle the wails of the relatives of the seven Marines killed in Saturday’s encounter with the Abu Sayyaf Group in Sulu.
Close to 70 families have fled to safer ground as village defenders and suspected cattle rustlers clashed, on Saturday morning, in a remote town in North Cotabato, leaving two village watchmen hurt.
An official says suspected rebels have ambushed and fatally shot three Indian army soldiers in the Indian portion of Kashmir.
A social worker abducted by suspected members of the Abu Sayyaf Group in Basilan was released Thursday evening, authorities said Friday.
