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Marawi, officially the Islamic City of Marawi (Maranao: Bandar a Marawi; Filipino: Lungsod ng Marawi), is a 4th class component city and capital of the province of Lanao del Sur, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 207,010 people.
The siege of Marawi (Filipino: Pagkubkob sa Marawi), [32] [33] also known as the Marawi crisis (Krisis sa Marawi) [34] and the Battle of Marawi (Labanan sa Marawi), was a five-month-long armed conflict in Marawi, Philippines, that started on May 23, 2017, between Philippine government security forces against militants affiliated with the ...
Oct 29, 2017 · Marawi, situated on the southern island of Mindanao in the Philippines, was the site of a bloody urban battle between ISIL fighters and government forces. Officially known as the Islamic City...
Oct 23, 2020 · Marawi is a cultural hub in the predominantly Muslim south of the Philippines, which is over 92% Christian overall. In 2017, hundreds of militants swearing allegiance to ISIS launched a surprise...
Oct 16, 2017 · Hundreds of Muslim militants overrun Marawi, a city of about 200,000, considered as centre of the Islamic faith in the southern island of Mindanao. The surprise attack comes after security forces...
The armed confrontation between government forces and pro-ISIS militants in Marawi has forcibly displaced 98 percent of the total population of the city, as well as residents from nearby municipalities, who were compelled to leave due to severe food shortage and/or constriction of local economies.
Jun 12, 2019 · Violent clashes in Marawi between the Philippine military and ISIS-aligned militants displaced thousands of residents. Most of the families in the shelter have stayed for more than a year.
Feb 17, 2022 · In Marawi, a city in the southern Philippines, around 100,000 civilians displaced by the five-month conflict in 2017 are still unable to return because of the extent of the damage.
Mar 2, 2023 · In May 2017, government forces began a fierce siege of Marawi, a provincial capital on the island of Mindanao in the Philippines. It took five months of heavy shelling and street-by-street fighting to root out Maute rebels linked to so-called Islamic State, at the cost of more than 1,000 lives and of displacing some 360,000 people.
Manila (ICRC) – To mark the International Day of the Disappeared, over 200 family members of around 170 people who went missing in the 2017 Marawi conflict gathered in Iligan City, Lanao del Norte on August 31 to urge Philippine authorities to provide answers on the fate and whereabouts of their loved ones. The annual event also served as an opportunity for them to honour their missing ...
