ZAMBOANGA, Philippines (AFP) – Thousands of residents fled as fresh fighting broke out Wednesday between Philippine security forces and Muslim rebels, on the third day of a deadly siege in a key ...

Philippine military helicopters on Monday fired rockets at Muslim rebels who were holed up in areas of a major city on the southern island of Mindanao. The rebels have been holding scores of people ...

The Philippines army said it rescued at least 123 hostages today held by Moro National Liberation Front rebels as the siege in Zamboanga City entered its ninth day. In a dramatic late development, ...

Thousands of residents of a predominantly Christian city in the Philippines’ majority Muslim south will commemorate the one-year anniversary of a siege that left some 300 people dead by marching for ...

Sporadic and intermittent gunfire rang out in Zamboanga City for a fourth day on Thursday as armed forces continued to clash with Muslim Moro National Liberation Front rebels holding as many as 180 ...

For three nights now, 52-year-old Meriam Sanguila has slept on the concrete floor of a sports stadium, around 3kms from her home in Zamboanga. "We have no change of clothes, we have no food and the ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. Over the past two weeks, a rebel group in the Muslim-majority southern Philippines ...

Task Force Zamboanga, the city’s peacekeepers headed by its Commander, Colonel Randolph P. Rojas INF (MNSA) PA celebrated its 25th Founding Anniversary on 15 May 2023 at its Headquarters in Camp ...

Zamboanga: Thousands of residents fled as fighting between Philippine troops and Muslim rebels intensified on Wednesday on the third day of a deadly siege in a key southern city. At least 13,000 ...