President Rodrigo Duterte will lift martial law in the southern Philippines by year's end, his spokesman said Tuesday, more than two years after it was imposed in an attempt to stop IS gaining a foothold there.
President Rodrigo Duterte will lift martial law in the southern Philippines by year's end, his spokesman said Tuesday, more than two years after it was imposed in an attempt to stop IS gaining a foothold there.
Mr Duterte's security advisers had apprised him of the"weakening of the terrorist and extremist rebellion, a result of the capture or neutralisation of their leaders, as well as the decrease in the crime index," Mr Panelo added. British-based watchdog group International Alert said in a report earlier this year that martial rule has reduced conflict incidents in Mindanao by 30 percent in 2017 and 2018.
These attacks included a January 2019 blast during Sunday mass at a Catholic cathedral on the island of Jolo.
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