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Philippines’ Duterte Seeks Martial Law Extension
President Rodrigo Duterte has asked lawmakers to extend martial law in the southern Philippines as the initial...
Philippine Forces Declare Eid Truce In War-Torn City
The Philippine armed forces declared an eight-hour ceasefire Sunday in its ongoing offensive against Islamist militants...
Australia Sends Spy Planes To South Philippines
Australian military spy planes will start flying missions over the southern Philippines to help in the fight against...
Philippine War Refugees Facing Deadly Health Risks
More than 200,000 people displaced after Islamist militants attacked a southern Philippine city are facing deadly...
Prayers In the Crossfire of Deadly Philippine Urban Battle
Muhamer Macayman cowered for four days as bullets tore through the shanty home he was hiding in, praying neither the...
Philippine Airstrikes Aimed At ISIS Kills 11 Soldiers In Friendly Fire
Philippine airstrikes aimed at Islamist militants who are holding hostages as human shields in a southern city killed...
Philippine Friendly Fire Airstrikes Kill 11 Troops
Philippine airstrikes aimed at Islamist militants who are holding hostages as human shields in a southern city killed...
Philippines, US To Hold Annual ‘Balikatan’ Military Drills
The Philippine military said Sunday it would hold annual exercises with US troops next month, reaffirming its...
Duterte Offers Authoritarianism As Philippine Panacea
Three turbulent decades after the Philippines shed dictatorship, President Rodrigo Duterte is offering a return to...
Body of Beheaded German Hostage Found
The Philippine military said on Sunday it had recovered the body of an elderly German hostage who was beheaded by...
Duterte Ordered Hundreds of Murders
Edgar Matobato's days are spent -- for now, at least -- in a verdant, bucolic compound some way outside Manila....