{"id":118297,"date":"2017-09-18T02:29:37","date_gmt":"2017-09-18T06:29:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=118297"},"modified":"2017-09-18T02:29:37","modified_gmt":"2017-09-18T06:29:37","slug":"maute-weakened-but-expected-to-resist-afp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/09\/18\/maute-weakened-but-expected-to-resist-afp\/","title":{"rendered":"Maute weakened, but expected to resist: AFP"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_103368\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-103368\" style=\"width: 720px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/New-AFP-chief-of-staff-Gen.-Eduardo-A\u00f1o-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-103368\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/New-AFP-chief-of-staff-Gen.-Eduardo-A\u00f1o-2.jpg\" alt=\"A\u00f1o said the AFP will press on relentlessly until all remaining terrorists, including former hostages turned fighters, to communicate with the military and surrender.  (Photo: Philippine News Agency)\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/New-AFP-chief-of-staff-Gen.-Eduardo-A\u00f1o-2.jpg 720w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/New-AFP-chief-of-staff-Gen.-Eduardo-A\u00f1o-2-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-103368\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A\u00f1o said the AFP will press on relentlessly until all remaining terrorists, including former hostages turned fighters, to communicate with the military and surrender. (Photo: Philippine News Agency)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA\u2014While the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) is making steady progress in its fight against the Maute terrorists in Marawi, it is expecting more resistance from the group.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs follow-up and clearing operations continue, we expect the enemy to yield more previously occupied positions, but not without a fight,&#8221; AFP chief-of-staff Gen. Eduardo A\u00f1o said late Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Fighting in Marawi City broke out after government troops tried to arrest Abu Sayyaf Isnilon Hapilon and his cohorts last May 23.<\/p>\n<p>The AFP chief is, however, quick to say that the terrorist group has sustained significant losses following the capture of its two strongholds &#8212; the Bato Mosque and Amaitul Islamiya Marawi Foundation &#8212; late Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>A\u00f1o added goverment troops fought for five hours before the successful capture of the positions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis enormous AFP gain further weakened the terrorist group by denying them their erstwhile command and control hub,\u201d he stressed.<\/p>\n<p>A\u00f1o said the AFP will press on relentlessly until all remaining terrorists, including former hostages turned fighters, to communicate with the military and surrender.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u2014While the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) is making steady progress in its fight against the Maute terrorists in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":103368,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,1145,16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}