How a botched raid led to martial law in the Philippines

It was meant to be a "surgical operation" to capture one of the world's most wanted terrorists, who was hiding and wounded in a southern Philippine city.Three days later Marawi, the centre of Islam in the mainly Catholic Asian nation was swarmed by tanks, attack helicopters and thousands of troops fighting Islamic State-linked fighters holed up in homes and buildings.President Rodrigo Duterte had also declared martial law across the southern third of the country to quell the crisis, while many o