BACOLOD CITY – A total of 149 families or 372 individuals were displaced in the latest encounter between the military and the New People’s Army in Barangay Pinapugasan, Escalante City, Negros Occidental on Tuesday, February 27. TROOPS recovered high-powered New People’s Army firearms in...
ILOILO CITY – Three New People’s Army rebels were killed in an encounter with the Philippine Army in Barangay Torocadan, San Joaquin, Iloilo on Wednesday, February 28. TROOPS found a New People’s Army (NPA) camp following an encounter in San Joaquin town, Iloilo province. (Army 301st...
Three communist rebels died in a fierce gun battle that led to the Army troopers overrunning their camp in San Joaquin town of Iloilo early morning on Wednesday, Feb. 28, a military official said. Brig. Gen. Michael Samson, commander of the 301 st Brigade, said the operation also resulted in...
A town in the province of Laguna has been declared free from the clutches of the New People’s Army. PEACE was achieved as the municipality of Cavinti, Laguna has been declared insurgency-free. (Photo via Danny Estacio) Cavinti was the third town in Laguna declared by the 2nd Infantry Division of...
ILIGAN CITY – A leader of the Western Mindanao Regional Party Committee (WMRPC) of the Communist Party of the Philippines-New People's Army-National Democratic Front was killed in an encounter with the military in Barangay Malagalad, Dumingag, Zamboanga del Sur on Tuesday, February 27. The 102nd...
BACOLOD CITY – The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD)-Western Visayas has turned over financial assistance amounting to P971,364 to more than 1,000 individuals displaced by the series of armed conflict in two localities in northern Negros Occidental last week. MORE than 1,000...
A cyber military officer guides the participants of the Cyber Skills Development Activity in Fort Bonifacio, Taguig City on February 24, 2024. (Photo courtesy of Philippine Army) The Philippine Army (PA) will hold its first-ever service unit-wide Combined Arms Training Exercise (CATEX) "Katihan" on...
Troops of the newly-activated 11th Field Artillery Battalion stand in formation during the unit's activation at Fort Ramon Magsaysay in Palayan City, Nueva Ecija on Sept. 12, 2023. (Photo by Philippine Army) The Philippine Army (PA) will recruit nearly 5,000 individuals to be part of their regular...
President Marcos vowed that the government will continue to bolster its campaign against terrorist groups as he mourns over the killing of six soldiers in Lanao del Norte. “Hindi natin makakalimutan ang kanilang kadakilaan at kabayanihan. Ipagpapatuloy natin ang kanilang ipinaglaban, at uusigin...
CEBU CITY — The remains of the female Bar passer who died along with four other members of the New People’s Army (NPA) in an encounter with government troops in Bilar, Bohol have been claimed by her relatives. The body of Hannah Jay Cesista was claimed by her father Eutropio Alegre...
The Philippine Army (PA) clarified on Saturday, February 24, the academic affiliation of a lawyer who died in an encounter between state security forces and the New People's Army (NPA) in Bilar, Bohol. Hannah Jay Cesista alias "Maya / Lean", 26, took up law at the University of San Carlos,...
CEBU CITY – The death of a Bar passer in an encounter between government troops and the New People’s Army (NPA) in Bohol shows the level of deception that the communist rebels is employing, the Police Regional Office-Central Visayas (PRO-7) said. Police Lt. Col. Gerard Ace Pelare said Hannah...
