| Presidential Peace Adviser Hermogenes Esperon, left, stresses his point as Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro, center, and Interior and Local Government Secretary Ronaldo Puno listen during a press conference on the current peace situation in southern Philippines Thursday in Quezon City. (AP photo) |
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MANILA (Updated, 12 p.m.) -- Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) rebels attacked a military detachment in the outskirts of Midsayap town in North Cotabato on Friday morning, hours after agreeing to comply a government ultimatum to leave several occupied villages by Friday.
MILF Vice Chairman Ghazali Jaafar said the agreement was reached late Thursday in a meeting of a joint ceasefire committee, ahead of the Friday morning deadline for the rebels to withdraw their forces from five towns in North Cotabato province.
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