Barely 48 hours after the government suspended peace talks with communist rebels, suspected New People’s Army (NPA) guerillas ambushed a local official and the responding policemen in Guihulngan City in Negros Oriental, killing seven and wounding five…
The attack in Pigcawayan, North Cotabato, by the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters on Wednesday was a diversionary tactic from the military’s focus in the operations in Marawi City, according to a security analyst. “Sa aming pananaw, kaya…
CATARMAN, Northern Samar — Four soldiers were wounded in an ambush here on Tuesday night by alleged members of the New People’s Army (NPA). The soldiers belonging to the 20th Infantry Battalion were heading to Catbalogan City…
COTABATO CITY — The Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF) said it took in its custody an undetermined number of civilians after they harassed militia outposts in Pigcawayan, North Cotabato, on Wednesday morning. Abu Mama Misri, speaking for…
New York — I happen to pass by the Big Apple on my way to Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada for an international co-op management education program when I heard about the terror attack in Resorts World Manila.…
A 33-year-old man was injured after he was attacked with a scythe by a mentally deranged person last Tuesday night in Barangay Simala, Sibonga town, southern Cebu. Nicholas Villacencio, married, however, got lucky after he only sustained…
BEIRUT, Lebanon— A chemical weapons attack in an opposition-held town in northern Syria killed dozens of people on Tuesday, leaving residents gasping for breath and convulsing in the streets and overcrowded hospitals. The Trump administration blamed the…
The recent debate between the Catholic Church and the Duterte administration in the war against illegal drugs came amid two major developments: one, an Amnesty International report that accused the government of tolerating not only a culture…
Paris, France — The Louvre reopened its doors Saturday, a day after soldiers outside the Paris museum shot and wounded a machete-wielding attacker, suspected of being an Egyptian national. The incident on Friday thrust the issue of…
Very few will probably remember that 75 years ago today, America — and with it her far -flung colony, the Philippines — finally entered World War II. So very few veterans of that brutal war are alive…
My flight to Manila was delayed. And I just sat there with that nagging feeling of annoyance. Seems like delayed flights are getting to be the normal situation instead of the exception. My mind was mentally calculating…
If social media is a clue to the quality of our neighborliness, we have much reason for disillusionment, especially if we examine the discourse in the aftermath of the blasts that killed 14 and injured scores of…
