Marawi

The Islamic State group, which wields influence in the country's south, said its members had detonated the bomb.

People affected by armed conflict and violence are at risk of death, displacement, loss of loved ones and weapon wounds - among others - and need care for both physical and psychological conditions.

The timing of U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis' trip to the Philippines this week could not have come at a better time.

Defence Secretary Delfin Lorenzana said combat operations had been terminated, after troops prevailed in the last stand against gunmen who clung on inside several buildings in the heart of Marawi.

Philippine troops were locked in an intense urban firefight on Sunday with the last remnants of a pro-Islamic state alliance.

Twenty rebels among the remaining Islamic State loyalists holed up in the devastated heart of Marawi City were killed in the latest fighting, likely including Malaysian Mahmud Ahmad.

Duterte said the fight was over and it was time to heal the wounded and rebuild the city of 200,000 people on the island of Mindanao.

Philippine forces have used loudspeakers urging militants to give themselves up, telling the fighters left in the city their lives would be spared if they disarm, change out of their black clothes.

The militants seized large parts of Marawi City on the island of Mindanao in May, and a hardcore of fighters has held out through more than 100 days of air strikes and ground attacks by troops.

Twenty-five-year-old Ali Nur, a heavily-tattooed, well-built pedi-cab driver speaks in monosyllables.

The defence top brass admits it underestimated its enemy and is struggling to finish off the highly organised, pro-Islamic State fighters who swept through Marawi City on May 23.

There have been similar attacks in the Philippines since last year, but the duration and ferocity of the fighting in Marawi has alarmed Southeast Asian nations.

It aims to turn predominantly Muslim parts of the southern island of Mindanao into an autonomous region with its own executive, legislature and fiscal powers.

Sabah police have stationed more personnel in the Eastern Sabah Security Zone (ESSZone) to curb subversive elements and to prevent cross-border criminals from hiding in the state.

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte was preparing to make a deal with Daish-inspired militants in the days after they laid siege to a southern city, but aborted the plan without explanation.

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