DAVAO CITY Leaders of business organizations in Mindanao and foreign chambers described as timely and significant the lifting last week of a “national state of lawless violence” in Mindanao. They said the lifting of the Presidential proclamation issued in 2016 would downgrade many international advisories against travel to Mindanao. The Mindanao…
Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana said on Monday that the successive neutralizations of the top commander of the New People’s Army (NPA) in Mindanao and the leader of the local front of the Islamic State (IS) in the country dealt a “big blow” to the two main terrorist groups in the…