🇵🇭⚡️(2017) Some of the deadliest urban combat in modern warfare, and it was only just a taste of what the future held for 'near peer and peer combat.'
● The city was swarming with lSlS terrorists, and when security forces tried conducting a raid to specifically arrest the 'head honcho' (Isnilon Hapilon), the lid blew wide open. The nearby military base (Camp Ranao) was assaulted by hundreds of insurgents, houses were set on fire, City Hall was seized, over a hundred inmates were let loose, thousands of civilians fled in a frenzy, dozens were killed/injured/kidnapped, and the battle officially began.
● Fighting lasted from 23/May-23/October; 165 Filipino soldiers and 47 civilians lost their lives, and almost a thousand terrorists were KIA. Nearly the entirely population was forced to evacuate, and most of the city was destroyed or badly damaged, with an estimated $216Mn worth of damage to be precise.