CAMP MELCHOR F DELA CRUZ, Upi, Gamu, Isabela – The government is living up to its promise to help the former rebels return to normal life by providing them with jobs and livelihood assistance. The Cagayan Provincial Government has been the latest to fulfill those promises. According to the 5th...
BAGGAO, Cagayan -- Army troops engaged around 20 members of Communist Terrorist during the conduct of strike operation at the vicinity of Sitio Sacat, Asinga-Via, Baggao, Cagayan Wednesday. The firefight lasted for about 30 minutes and saw the rebels scamper to different directions. Baggao Police...
The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) expressed confidence Wednesday, April 6, that communist insurgency will be greatly weakened, if not totally eradicated, before President Duterte‘s last day in office in June as more rebels continue to surrender to the military. (File photo / MANILA...
Senator Christopher “Bong” Go has emphasized the need for a stronger whole-of-nation approach in addressing the 50-year-old local insurgency. Go, a political ally of President Duterte, issued the statement following a call of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) to the members of its...
FORT MAGSAYSAY, Nueva Ecija –The 70th Infantry Battalion, led by Lt. Col. Eugene F Garce, facilitated the christening of the baby daughter of a couple, who were former rebels, at the St Catherine Parish, Arayat, Pampanga on March 26, 2022. (Photo courtesy of 70IB / MANILA BULLETIN) Major General...
BACOLOD CITY - Two men believed to be members of the New People’s Army (NPA) were killed in a clash with government troops in Barangay Carabalan, Himamaylan City, Negros Occidental on Saturday. Army checks on the bodies of two suspected NPA rebels killed in a clash in Barangay Carabalan,...
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia -- The Saudi-led coalition carried out air strikes in Yemen early on Sunday after the country's Huthi rebels called a three-day truce and offered a permanent ceasefire, Saudi media said. The raids targeted Sanaa, the rebel-held capital, according to Saudi Arabia's Al Ekhbariya...
SANAA, Yemen -- Yemen's Huthi rebels announced a three-day truce with the Saudi-led coalition and dangled the prospect of a "permanent" ceasefire on Saturday, the seventh anniversary of a brutal conflict that has left millions on the brink of famine. A day after a wave of Huthi drone and missile...
BACOLOD CITY -- The Army's 94th Infantry Battalion (IB) prevented an alleged extortion attempt of the New People’s Army (NPA) members after they were engaged in two clashes at Sitio Malikolik, Barangay Carabalan, Himamaylan City, Negros Occidental on Friday. Some residents of Barangay Mahalang,...
President Duterte said he is hoping that the next administration will continue the government's anti-insurgency programs under the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC). President Duterte during his pre-recorded "Talk to the People" address aired Tuesday morning,...
In just 24 hours, a total of 75 alleged communist rebels and local terrorists surrendered to the military in Mindanao, the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) disclosed Saturday, March 19. (File photo / MANILA BULLETIN) Col. Jorry Baclor, chief of the AFP public affairs office, said the surrender...
President Duterte called on the communist rebels anew to return to the fold of the law while he is still in office, stressing the need to end the country's decades-long communist insurgency. President Rodrigo Duterte (Malacañang photo) Duterte made this appeal as he led the inauguration of the...
