LAMITAN CITY, Basilan (PNA) – A bomb courier formerly identified with the Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) was killed while his companion escaped during a shootout with government troops in this city, the military said Thursday, June 30. Brig. Gen. Domingo Gobway, Joint Task Force (JTF)-Basilan commander,...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – An improvised explosive device (IED) exploded at the gate of the Lamitan City Hall in Lamitan town, Basilan on Monday, June 20. Lamitan city hall building. (Lamitan Tourism Office photo) The explosion was heard at 6:40 p.m. A police report said one of two male suspects on...
BUTUAN CITY – The government security forces seized bomb-making components from Communist New People’s Army Terrorists (CNTs) after a fierce firefight in Tagbuaya area, Barangay Bangonay, Jabonga, Agusan del Norte. Shown in photo are some of the bomb-making materials of the CPP-NPA that were...
GUIMBAL, Iloilo--Vice presidential candidate Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte has given her most impassioned endorsement of Bongbong Marcos yet. Vice presidential candidate Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte (Noel Pabalate/ MANILA BULLETIN) During the UniTeam's Visayas "miting de avance" here by the bay,...
UNITED NATIONS, United States -- The United Nations secretary-general on Saturday slammed a bomb blast in the Afghan capital the day before that ripped through a mosque and killed at least 10 worshippers. "The Secretary-General strongly condemns yesterday's deadly attack on the Khalifa Sahib Mosque...
CEBU CITY—Bomb threats rocked the Hall of Justice buildings of the cities of Mandaue and Cebu on Wednesday afternoon, March 9. The separate bomb threats forced employees to evacuate as police scoured the buildings. The twin bomb threats turned out to be hoax as no explosives were found. The first...
Alert military personnel foiled a potential destructive bomb attack when it successfully diffused an improvised explosive device (IED) that was left on the roadside by an unidentified suspect in Patikul, Sulu on Sunday, Feb. 27. (Courtesy of 11th Infantry Division) 1Lt. Jose Ignacious de Leon,...
ZAMBOANGA CITY— Combined military and police troops foiled a possible bombing attack after defusing an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) and recovering bomb materials in Patikul municipality, Sulu Province on Sunday, Feb. 27. A military report said teams under the Joint Task Force Sulu (JTF-Sulu)...
Two pieces of unexploded ordnance (UXO) or unexploded military ammunition and explosives were found at the Bagong Ospital ng Maynila parking lot construction site along Mabini Street in Malate, Manila on Wednesday, Jan. 26. A 105 mm High Explosive Projectile and a 50mm Anti-aircraft ammunition were...
The Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) denounced the Communist Party of the Philippines-New People’s Army (CPP-NPA) on Friday, August 20, after government troops stormed its bomb-making facility in Dolores, Eastern Samar earlier this week. Secretary Eduardo Ano (DILG photo)...
WASHINGTON, United States -- A man who threatened to set off a bomb on Washington's Capitol Hill surrendered to police Thursday, ending an hours-long standoff that rattled lawmakers still shaken by January's pro-Trump insurrection. The dome of the US Capitol in Washington, D.C. (AFP/Getty Images)...
A roadside bomb struck a bus in Afghanistan overnight killing at least 11 people just hours before the Taliban announced a three-day ceasefire to mark this week's Eid al-Fitr holiday, the interior ministry said Monday. A man pushes an injured boy on a stretcher along a hospital corridor in Kandahar...
