Marawi city

Scars of Marawi siege linger as Philippines poll nears
  • As the now semi-autonomous Muslim region in the southern Philippines aims to turn a new page with its first elections on Monday, the gravesite is a painful reminder that the healing is far from complete
  • From May to October of 2017, the Philippine military and gunmen linked to the Daesh group fought brutal house-to-house battles that turned Marawi’s 400-hectare business district into a ghost town