US forces back Philippine troops in Islamist held city
MARAWI CITY: United States uncommon powers are offering help to the Philippine military doing combating to remove Islamist aggressors in a southern city, the US international safe haven said on Saturday, as 13 Filipino marines were killed in crisp battling. Philippine troops are attempting to thrashing many contenders, who rampaged through Marawi on May 23 flying dark banners of IS, and have utilized regular citizens as human shields, bomb-confirmation passages and against tank weapons to invigorate their positions. Friday's fierce, road to-road gunbattles with the aggressors saw 13 troops killed, in an emotional surge in the toll from the contention, Philippine military representatives said. It was among the heaviest battling seen in chiefly Muslim Marawi as the aviation based armed forces battered parts of the city with strikes to bolster ground troops. Around 40 marines were injured in the gunbattles that kept going 14 hours, as indicated by military representative Colonel Edgar...