Tag: Mindanao

Philippine troops have seized 59 suspected militants trying to reinforce Islamist gunmen holed up in the southern city of Marawai ...

The United States donated surveillance aircraft and began delivering weapons to the Philippines on Thursday to help its Asian ally ...

Western governments are warning their citizens against travelling to nearly all of the southern third of the Philippines, citing the ...

Legislators in the Philippines have voted overwhelmingly to extend martial law to deal with an Islamist insurgency in the restive ...

The Philippine Congress on Saturday voted to extend President Rodrigo Duterte's declaration of martial law in the south until the ...

Four of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's bodyguards were shot and wounded on Wednesday by suspected communist rebels a day after ...

Children and hostages are being forced to fight alongside pro-Islamic State gunmen waging a seven-week battle for a Philippine city, ...

A gun-toting Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte made a surprise visit Friday to a military camp close to a city where ...

Islamist militants occupying parts of a southern Philippine city used a water route to bring in ammunition and evacuate wounded ...

The Philippine armed forces declared an eight-hour ceasefire Sunday in its ongoing offensive against Islamist militants occupying parts of the ...

A dusty teddy bear strewn on the floor, family photos on a wall and dried underwear on a clothesline are ...

Australian military spy planes will start flying missions over the southern Philippines to help in the fight against Islamic militants ...

Islamic militants launched a day-long assault on a southern Philippine village Wednesday during which they held 31 people hostage inside ...

Islamic militants occupied a primary school and took hostages in a southern Philippine village on Wednesday, a few hours drive ...

Inside the "Heroes' Ward" at a hospital in the Philippine capital, wounded soldiers read the Bible and recount horror stories ...

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte apologised Tuesday for a military offensive that has left the nation's main Muslim city in ruins, ...

Islamist militants holding parts of a Philippine city are killing civilians who try to flee while using others as orderlies ...

US forces are providing the Philippines with technical assistance to end a siege of the southern town of Marawi by ...

One local politician has been arrested and others are wanted for supporting Islamist militants who have taken over parts of ...

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday ordered the military to "crush" Islamist militants still occupying parts of a southern city, ...