The Commission on Appointments (CA) on Tuesday, May 16 approved the appointment of former Valenzuela mayor and representative Rex Gatchalian as Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) secretary. Department of Social Welfare and Development Secretary Rex Gatchalian raises his hand as he...
CAMP AQUINO, Tarlac City – The military over the weekend revealed what it called an enduring symbol of their victory against communist terrorist groups in Palanan, Isabela. DEPARTMENT of Defense officer-in-charge Undersecretary Carlito Galvez Jr. leads the unveiling of a victory marker against...
BARRACKS AND STRATEGY By  *Lt. Gen. Jaime S. de los Santos, AFP (Ret)* The Philippines has come into focus due to the increasing tension in the Taiwan Straits, leading to the establishment of new EDCA (Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement) sites in the Cagayan Valley Region. Recent news...
General Andres Centino, Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), met with General James McConville, Chief of Staff of the United States Army, who paid a courtesy visit at Camp Aguinaldo in Quezon City on Wednesday, May 10. ( [L-R] General James McConville, Chief of Staff of the...
The Philippine Navy (PN) will christen two of its brand new patrol gunboats in Fort San Felipe, Cavite City on Monday, May 8. (Photo: Philippine Navy Modernization Office) The two fast attack interdiction craft-missile (FAIC-M), which were manufactured by Israel Shipyards Ltd., will be named BRP...
The Philippines and the United States have agreed to finalize their plans of conducting joint naval sails in the waters encompassing the Indo-Pacific region, the Department of National Defense (DND) bared Saturday, April 29. (President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. witnesses the sinking exercise between the...
The Exercise Balikatan 2023, dubbed as the largest iteration of the joint military exercise between the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and the United States Armed Forces, officially concluded on Friday, April 28, with an official saying it was a huge success. ( Experts from the United...
President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. has appointed a new set of government officials in several agencies, Malacañang announced. Marcos has named three new officials of Malacañang's public information arm, Presidential Communications Office (PCO), which included a former journalist. The...
The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and the United States Armed Forces declared as successful the conduct of Balikatan combined joint littoral live fire exercise in San Antonio, Zambales on Wednesday, April 26, when it achieved its objective to sink a mock vessel. (BRP Pangasinan as monitored...
The Philippines has an “inherent and invaluable” right to conduct military exercises within its own territory. ( HIMARS rockets are fired during the combined joint littoral live fire exercise of Exercise Balikatan 2023 in San Antonio, Zambales on April 26, 2023. Photo by Noel Pabalate /...
The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and the United States Armed Forces will fire at and sink a decommissioned vessel of the Philippine Navy (PN) in Zambales on Wednesday, April 26, as part of the combined and joint littoral live fire exercise of the ongoing Balikatan drills. (San Antonio,...
The New People’s Army (NPA) units in Western and Central Visayas are now “leaderless” following the death of an alleged high-ranking communist rebel in an armed encounter in Negros Occidental recently, the military said Sunday, April 23. (Rogelio Posadas / Courtesy of Philippine Army 94th...
