THE Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) will exert efforts to flush out the remaining members of the Islamic State (IS)-linked Maute terrorist group in Marawi City. This is in response to President Rodrigo Duterte’s self-imposed 15-day deadline to end the conflict in Marawi where the Maute terrorists have a stockpile of firearms. “The 15 days is a period within which the President hopes the crisis in Marawi to end. He is being briefed every now and then about the situation and he came up with [the 15-day]assessment,” de la Rosa told reporters in a chance interview in Camp Crame. De la Rosa said that the President’s 15-day deadline was a result of a “very good assessment,” especially coming from Duterte himself, adding that he also has the same evaluation.

Source: Manila Times July 12, 2017 07:41 UTC