At least 29 detainees escaped from a jail in the southern Philippines on Saturday when a guard briefly left his post, but 17 of them were immediately captured when law enforcers fired warning shots, police said.
The 12 detainees who managed to (...)
The Philippine military deployed thousands of extra troops on Tuesday to destroy an extremist group notorious for kidnapping foreigners, after 15 soldiers were killed, authorities said.
President Rodrigo Duterte has ordered his security forces to (...)
Two people were killed after
dynamite apparently intended for quarrying exploded in a
house in the southern Philippines on Sunday.
The powerful blast on Jolo Island also injured three
others and damaged the house in the coastal township (...)
Government troops, backed by
helicopter gunships, bombarded Muslim rebels with artillery
and rocket fire Sunday in the mountainous heartland of
southern Jolo island after weeklong clashes that left more
than 60 people dead.
Three soldiers were (...)
