Philippine police say five Muslim rebels from a group that signed a peace deal and is helping the government fight extremism have been killed in their latest clash with IS group-linked militants.
Police Senior Superintendent Agustin Tello says five (...)
The Philippine military says a bomb explosion near a mosque in a restive southern province has killed one man, AP reported.
Military spokesman Lt. Col. Prudencio Asto says the roadside bomb went off late Friday in Maguindanao province.
Soldiers (...)
Awwal 28, 1432 H/March 3, 2011, SPA -- Five people were wounded Thursday in a roadside bombing suspected to have been perpetrated by extortion gangs in the southern Philippines, police said.
According to dpa, the homemade bomb exploded as a bus (...)
Sixteen prisoners, most of them facing robbery and murder charges, escaped Thursday from a jail in a southern Philippine city, a local official said.
According to dpa, the detainees sawed off the iron grills of their cell in Cotabato City Jail, 960 (...)
At least 209 cases of diarrhea have been monitored in this town, prompting the local health office to deploy health personnel to prevent the water-borne disease from spreading further.
Municipal health officer Dominic Laos, M.D., Wednesday said (...)
A gunfight between leftist rebels and the military in the southern Philippines left a Filipino soldier dead and another injured, a military official said.
Fighting erupted at the encampment of the New People's Army in the village of Baylo in the (...)
Two policemen were killed by
unidentified gunmen in a southern Philippine province, a regional
police chief said Saturday, DPA reported.
Chief Superintendent Joel Goltiao said the victims were on board a
van when they were attacked by gunmen (...)
A 24-year-old woman was killed
and five were wounded in a grenade explosion in a
southern Philippine city, police said Friday, according to dpa.
No suspects have yet been identified in the blast on Thursday
evening in Cotabato City, 960 (...)
Four people were killed and 35
others injured when a passenger minibus plunged into a ravine in the
southern Philippines, a town official said Monday, according to dpa.
The minibus was negotiating a sharp downhill curve on Saturday
when its (...)
Plainclothes policemen were
deployed Saturday on privately-owned passenger buses hit by a series
of bomb attacks in the southern Philippines, an official said, according to dpa.
Chief Superintendent Felizardo Serapio said police marshals (...)
Two bomb attacks rocked a
southern Philippine city on Wednesday, killing at least two people,
police said.
The first blast occurred inside a residential subdivision in
Cotabato City, 930 kilometres south of Manila, killing two people, according (...)
At least five people were killed on Tuesday and 17 others injured when a truck plunged into a ravine in the southern Philippines, a police report said.
The victims were aboard the ill-fated truck on their way to attend the wake of a dead relative (...)
Policemen have arrested two suspected kidnappers involved in several kidnapping cases in the southern Philippines, a regional police chief said Saturday.
Chief Superintendent Joel Goltiao said the two suspects, who were believed to be close aides (...)
At least 13 people died and 18 others were injured Saturday when a 10-wheeler truck crashed into revelers gathered for a festival in the southern Philippines, police and local officials said.
The truck also crashed into several vehicles parked (...)
Nine people were killed in a diarrhoea outbreak in a southern Philippine town, an official said Saturday.
At least 70 other people suffered from the illness since the start of the outbreak a week ago in Palimbang town in Sultan Kudarat province, (...)
Muslim rebels said
Wednesday that their followers want them to negotiate for
self-rule in the southern Philippines under a number of
proposals, including full independence, to end decades of
separatist rebellion.
Moro Islamic Liberation Front (...)
Two soldiers were injured in a clash with communist rebels in a southern Philippine province, an army spokesman said Saturday.
Lieutenant Colonel Franklin del Prado said the soldiers were injured Friday in a landmine explosion during a clash with (...)
Malaysia's Deputy Prime Minister Najib Razak on Tuesday visited the southern Philippines, where a Malaysian-led team is monitoring a ceasefire between government troops and Moslem separatist rebels.
Najib, who is also defense minister, checked on (...)
Muslim separatist rebels said
Saturday they are determined to peacefully resolve their
three-decade rebellion in the southern Philippines.
Mohaqher Iqbal, chief peace negotiator for the Moro
Islamic Liberation Front, said rebel leaders (...)