The World Council of Churches today released a report on what it called "shocking" human rights violations in the Philippines under President Ferdinand E.
Philippine Defense Minister Rafael Ileto on Monday led the nation's 250,000-member armed forces
At least 14 soldiers were killed and several wounded today when communist rebels ambushed a government convoy in the northern Philippines, the military operations center said.
Twenty-five inmates escaped from the Cebu city jail before dawn Sunday, crawling to freedom through a tunnel dug beneath a cellblock toilet.
southern Philippine island of Mindanao, government officials reported Monday.
A police chief and four of his men were killed Sunday in a Communist rebel ambush in the northern Philippines, the official Philippine News Agency said.
A Philippine air force plane carrying 12 people developed engine trouble Saturday night and crashed
A special commission recommended today that charges be filed against security forces and protesters in last month's fatal shooting of at least 12 demonstrators by police and soldiers guarding the presidential palace.
Government troops battled communist rebels today in the first clash since a cease-fire ended two days ago, and a military report said 18 people were killed, including 12 civilians caught in the cross fire.
Deputy Information Minister Eduardo Zialcita resigned Tuesday, the first official to leave the three-month-old administration of President Corazon Aquino.
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health of the Philippine economy and polity, has chosen to concentrate her attention, and that of her people, on the future instead of the past.
About 80 guerrillas of the far-left New People's Army were killed last week.
Gunmen burst into a house in a village 500 miles south of Manila and shot to death a newspaper columnist critical of President Ferdinand E.
Communist guerrillas, the official Philippine news agency said.
Eight anti-government guerrillas were killed this week in clashes with security forces in the southern Philippines, military headquarters said Thursday.
A former Philippine ambassador to the Vatican, Bienvenido Tantoco, and five other Philippine
an open marketplace in Osamis, 475 miles south of Manila, police reported Thursday.
More than 3,000 poor farm workers from the country's "rice bowl" marched into the capital Sunday to protest what they called the failure of President Ferdinand E.