Martial law in Mindanao might stay until the end of the year despite the termination of combat operations against Islamic State-linked Maute terrorists in Marawi City, Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana has said.

“I think it will stay until December 31 [since it was extended], because we will still go to Congress [and] we still don’t know yet [when],” Lorenzana told reporters in a chance interview on Thursday night.

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