CANDELARIA, Quezon – Philippine National Police chief Police Lt. Gen. Jose Nartatez Jr. on Sunday visited police personnel wounded in a recent encounter with communist rebels in this town. Nartatez awarded the Medalya ng Sugatang Magiting and Medalya ng Kadakilaan for the bravery and sacrifice in...
CAMP NAKAR, Lucena City – A police officer was killed and two colleagues were wounded in a gun battle with a group of armed men in Sitio Pulyok, Barangay San Isidro, Candelaria town, Quezon province, on Friday evening, Dec. 19. The name of the slain policeman was withheld for security reasons. He...
The Philippine Army (PA) on Saturday, Dec. 20, expressed condolences to the families of two soldiers killed when anti-personnel mines (APMs) were allegedly detonated by New People 's Army (NPA) rebels in Balatan, Camarines Sur. According to the military, elements of the 9th Infantry Battalion...
TACLOBAN CITY – Two New People’s Army (NPA) combatants were killed in a clash with government troops Friday morning in Northern Samar. The 8th Infantry Division said patrolling soldiers from the 20th Infantry Battalion engaged rebels around 6:50 a.m. in upland Barangay Bulao in Las Navas town....
TACLOBAN CITY – A member of the New People’s Army (NPA) was killed in a clash with soldiers in Barangay Gusaran, Silvino Lobos town, Northern Samar province on Wednesday. The Philippine Army (PA) said the 30-minute gun battle started at around 6:57 a.m. following a tip from a concerned citizen...
TACLOBAN CITY – Two soldiers were killed in an encounter on Wednesday, Dec. 3, with the New People’s Army in Barangay Babaclayon, San Jose de Buan town, Samar province. The fatalities were two technical sergeants under the 81st Military Intelligence Company. Troops were conducting intelligence...
BACOLOD CITY – A squad leader of the dismantled Central Negros 2 (CN2) of the New People’s Army (NPA) was killed in an encounter with the 94th Infantry Battalion (IB) in Barangay Buenavista, Himamaylan City, Negros Occidental on Tuesday morning, Dec. 2. Lt. Col. Ziegfred Tayaban, 94th IB...
A leader of the Ilocos-Cordillera Regional Committee (ICRC) of the New People’s Army (NPA) was killed while a soldier was wounded in an encounter in Barangay Allaguia, Pinukpuk, Kalinga on Sunday afternoon, Nov. 23. Lt. Col. Melvin Asuncion, officer–in–charge of the Division Public Affairs...
TACLOBAN CITY – A New People’s Army (NPA) fighter was killed in an encounter with the 46th Infantry (Peacemaker) Battalion in a remote in Gandara and San Jorge towns, Samar province, on Sunday. The 8th Infantry Division has yet to identify the slain rebel. Recovered in the encounter site were...
TACLOBAN CITY – The three rebels killed in a recent clash with government troops in Jaro town, Leyte province were linked to the murder of a soldier in 2023, the Philippine Army’s (PA) 8th Infantry Division (ID) said on Thursday. The PA said that based on verification, one of the three firearms...
TACLOBAN CITY – Three members of the New People’s Army (NPA) were killed in a firefight with government forces in Barangay Pange, Jaro, Leyte, early Monday, the Philippine Army reported. Brig. Gen. Pompeyo Jason Almagro, commander of the 802nd Infantry Brigade, said fatalities were a squad...
BACOLOD CITY – The Negros Occidental Police Provincial Office is investigating the encounter between the 62nd Infantry Battalion and the New People’s Army in Moises Padilla town, Negros Occidental province on Oct. 28. The incident claimed the life of a six-year-old boy believed to have been hit...
