CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY — The top official of the Philippine Army’s 58th Infantry Battalion has vowed to conduct thorough investigation against soldiers allegedly involved in a harassment incident in Looc village, Villanueva town in Misamis Oriental on Sunday night, May 8. The Villanueva Municipal...
The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) is monitoring the security situation in 114 cities and municipalities that were placed under the red category of the Commission on Elections (Comelec), which means that there is a grave security concern there, and those that were under total control by the...
By Jan Chavez-Arceo I used to reference my own motherhood travails in navigating the corporate terrain, so to me mothers who were corporate mavericks were super moms. This was before I was fully immersed in the even more challenging realities of women in active military service who also tended to...
CAMP AQUINO, Tarlac City -- “We will not allow violence, terror, and intimidation to happen, not during our watch.” Thus said Lieutenant General Rodolfo Azurin, Commander of Area Police Command-Northern Luzon, on Thursday, during the Joint Peace Security Coordinating Committee Area (JPSCC-A)...
LAGUNA -- An army sergeant was wounded following an attack of a gunman who was killed in the exchange of gunfire in the Commission on Election (Comelec) checkpoint on Wednesday morning in Sta. Maria, this province. In a report reaching the Laguna Police Provincial Office (LPPO), the wounded soldier...
PALAYAN CITY, Nueva Ecija -- Army troops have warned the students from the Communist Terrorist Group’s (CTGs) deceptive recruitment in the different schools in Northern Luzon. Army Captain Roberto B. Apelado, the acting Civil-Military Operations Officer of the army’s 91st Infantry Battalion...
Around 75,000 personnel of the Philippine Army (PA) and the Philippine National Police (PNP) who have election duties were qualified to participate in the local absentee voting that culminated on Friday, April 29. Philippine Army troops undergo pre-voting procedure for local absentee voting on...
Presidential candidate Bongbong Marcos has categorically stated that he has no "trolls", or persons paid to do his bidding in the online space. Presidential candidate Bongbong Marcos (Noel Pabalate/ MANILA BULLETIN) The topic about online trolls was raised during the UniTeam bet's guesting Tuesday,...
Government security forces and suspected members of the New People’s Army (NPA) figured in separate armed encounters in Occidental Mindoro and Masbate on Monday, April 25, which led to the death of four communist rebels and the wounding of a soldier, the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP)...
The Philippine Army's (PA) Army Support Command (ASCOM) has played a "crucial" role in keeping the country peaceful for more than five decades already, Lt. Gen. Romeo Brawner Jr., PA Commanding General, said. Lt. Gen. Romeo Brawner Jr., Commanding General of the Philippine Army, speaks to personnel...
The Philippine Army (PA) has reactivated its 1st Tank Battalion which will be manned by soldiers who played a crucial role in the liberation of Marawi City from terrorist groups in 2017. Philippine Army Division's officers and enlisted personnel stand in formation during the reactivation of the 1st...
ZAMBOANGA CITY -- Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) operatives arrested on April 15 in Zamboanga City a former policeman implicated in the 2020 killing of four military Intelligence Officers in Jolo, Sulu. Col. John Francis Encinareal said Abdulzhimer Padjiri y Halisan, 42, a...
