The Philippine military said Tuesday it had killed almost 40 militants loyal to the Islamic State group, including three Indonesians and a Malaysian, in a major land and air assault in the south. The...
Islamic militants who landed on a Philippine tourist island triggering deadly clashes with security forces had planned to stage a mass kidnapping, the military said Wednesday as it pursued five...
The Philippines sent military reinforcements to one of its most famous tourist islands Wednesday as a deadly operation to flush out heavily armed Islamic militants entered its second day. The army...
A strong magnitude 6.0-earthquake hit the southern Philippines at dawn on Wednesday, damaging dozens of houses and sending people fleeing into the streets for safety, authorities said. There were no...
Two ailing Malaysian seamen held hostage by Filipino Muslim militants for eight months were found Thursday aboard a boat adrift off the southern Philippines, the local military said. Tayudin Anjut,...
The Philippine military said on Sunday it had recovered the body of an elderly German hostage who was beheaded by Islamic militants last week. The Abu Sayyaf, a kidnap-for-ransom network in the...
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte apologised on Tuesday for failing to save an elderly German hostage who was beheaded by Islamic militants, but insisted ransoms should not be paid. The Abu...
With ultra-fast boats, millions in ransom payments and sympathetic locals, pro-Islamic State militants on lawless southern Philippines islands who beheaded a German hostage this week have re-emerged...
Islamic militants in the Philippines have posted a video showing the beheading of a German hostage. Juergen Kantner was abducted from his yacht off Malaysia’s Sabah state in November. His companion...
Islamic militants in the Philippines have posted a video showing the beheading of a German hostage. Jurgen Kantner was abducted from his yacht off Malaysia’s Sabah state in November. His companion...
Islamic militants in the Philippines have posted a video showing the beheading of a German hostage. Jurgen Kantner was abducted from his yacht off Malaysia's Sabah state in November. His companion...
Islamic militants in the Philippines have beheaded the German hostage they were holding for ransom, the SITE Intelligence group said Monday. A video posted by the extremist Abu Sayyaf group, which...
Thirteen detainees facing drug charges escaped from jail on Sunday, the latest in a series of prison breaks in the Philippines, authorities said. The 13 slipped out of the jail in a police camp in...
Pirates have attacked a Vietnamese-flagged cargo ship off the southern Philippines, killing one seaman and abducting at least six others in a region notorious for such attacks, officials said Monday....
Thousands of residents of a city in the southern Philippines huddled on the streets on Sunday, two days after a deadly quake, as aftershocks continued to hit the region. The 6.5-magnitude quake...
Seven people have died and 120 others injured in a 6.7 magnitude earthquake that rattled Surigao City in the southern Philippines Friday night, the city mayor said Saturday. Mayor Ernesto Matugas...
Four people died and more than 100 were injured Four people died and more than 100 were injured after a powerful earthquake struck the island of Mindanao in the southern Philippines late Friday,...
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday called for the withdrawal of U. S. military from a restive southern island, fearing an American troop presence could complicate offensives against...
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte expressed regret Tuesday over his "son of a bitch" remark while referring to President Barack Obama, in a rare display of contrition by a politician whose wide...
