A Philippine soldier peers through a hole in a house wall destroyed during a firefight as he checks for enemy positions as the stand-off between the Philippine military and Muslim rebels entered its seventh-day in Zamboanga on the southern island of Mindanao on September 15, 2013. Philippine troops were on September 15 closing in on Muslim rebel positions and cutting off escape routes to end a week-long standoff that has left more than 60 people dead in the southern city of Zamboanga, officials said. AFP PHOTO / TED ALJIBE