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No group in the Philippines has so far expressed interest in heeding the call of Hamas to launch a jihad, a top official of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) said on Thursday, Oct 19. But AFP chief of staff Gen. Romeo Brawner, Jr. said they are still on monitoring mode with the assistance...

Authorities have not received information on possible terror threat in the country so far, the Philippine National Police (PNP) said in reaction to the warning of the Japan Ministry of Foreign Affairs about potential attacks in Southeast Asia. But PNP chief Gen. Guillermo Lorenzo Eleazar said they...

Editorial Twenty years after the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and commercial airline flights in the United States that killed 2,996 people, Filipinos join the rest of the world in reflecting on the continuing threats posed by terrorism. In July last year, Congress passed...