Eleven suspected members of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) have been killed and five others have been wounded in a clash with their own MILF comrades in Maguindanao del Sur province in the southern Philippines,
MANILA: At least 11 people were killed in southern Philippines during a fierce gun battle and knife fight that broke out between warring command units of an armed rebel group, the authorities said on Thursday (Oct 31).
COTABATO CITY, (Philippines): A bloody encounter between two armed groups in an island village in Parang, Maguindanao del Norte left seven alleged gunmen dead, police and military authorities reported Saturday (Oct 19).
MANILA: President Ferdinand Marcos Jr promised to implement all peace agreements with rebel groups signed during his administration.
MANILA (Reuters) - The Philippine government is ready to use "authority and forces" against attempts to divide the nation, a security official said Sunday, after former President Rodrigo Duterte threatened to separate some southern islands from the rest of the archipelago.
OTABATO CITY (Philippine Daily Inquirer/Asia News Network): The Philippines government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) are preparing to mainstream former Moro rebels into the Philippine National Police.
MARAWI CITY (Philippines Daily Inquirer/Asia News Network): The Armed Forces of the Philippines maintained on Thursday (March 3) that the Daulah Islamiyah (DI)-Maute group camp raided by troopers in Maguing, Lanao del Sur, was not within the territory of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF).
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (Philippine Daily Inquirer/ANN): Achieving the milestones under a 2014 peace deal between the government and the once separatist Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) will require another six years, the length of one presidential term.
THE government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) are preparing to take in former Moro rebels into the Philippine National Police.
NEW YORK: It is the responsibility of all countries to take in more Rohingya refugees to be resettled in their respective countries following the crisis in Myanmar, says Prime Minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob.
Rodrigo Duterte steps down as president Thursday after a six-year term marked by a bloody drug war, a devastating pandemic and the worst economic crisis in decades.
RODRIGO Duterte steps down as president tomorrow after a six-year term marked by a bloody drug war, a devastating pandemic and the worst economic crisis in decades.
Elections in the Philippines’ autonomous Bangsamoro region have been pushed back to 2025, extending the transitional government’s term three more years, under a popular law signed by the nation’s president.
The Philippine government said Friday it will postpone elections key to ending decades of sectarian bloodshed in a troubled Muslim region, with the pandemic and a stalling peace process blamed for the delay.
The government said it will postpone elections key to ending decades of sectarian bloodshed in a troubled region, with the pandemic and a stalling peace process blamed for the delay.
MANILA (Philippine Daily Inquirer/ANN): The coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic has affected the ongoing normalisation progress — including the peace process — in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM), Bangsamoro Planning and Development Authority (BPDA) Director-General Mohajirin T. Ali said Wednesday (Nov 18)
President Rodrigo Duterte (pic) has approved an amnesty programme for Muslim and communist rebels who would agree to surrender their weapons as they return to normal life, in the latest such attempt to tame rural insurgencies that have raged for half a century.
The country will deploy four officers from the Royal Brunei Armed Forces as members of the third Independent Decommissioning Body Verification, Monitoring and Assistance Team (IDB VMAT) in Mindanao, the Philippines.
BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN (Xinhua): Brunei will deploy four officers from the Royal Brunei Armed Forces (RBAF) as members of the third Independent Decommissioning Body Verification, Monitoring and Assistance Team (IDB VMAT) in Mindanao, the Philippines.
MANILA (Philippine Daily Inquirer/ANN): An alleged member of the Abu Sayyaf group was killed following a shootout with members of the Philippine National Police-Anti-Kidnapping Group (PNP-AKG) in Sibuco, Zamboanga Del Norte.