Senate OKs bill imposing 12-year prison term on terror plotters

Feb 27, 2020 | Nation

The Senate, voting 19-2, on Wednesday approved on final reading Senate Bill No. 1083, which toughens the law against terrorism and effectively repealing the Human Security Act of 2007. Senators Sonny Angara, Nancy Binay, Pia Cayetano, Ronald “Bato” dela...

Baghdadi is dead, but it’s certainly not the end of Islamist militancy

Oct 29, 2019 | In the trenches, Opinion, Top Stories

President Donald Trump is joined by Vice President Mike Pence; National Security Advisor Robert O’Brien; Defense Secretary Mark Esper; Army General Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; and Army Brig. Gen. Marcus Evans, the Joint Staff’s deputy...

‘Threat of violent extremism needs to be addressed’

Sep 10, 2019 | Top Stories

By Melo Acuña Lt. General Cirilito E. Sobejana, chief of the Armed Forces of the Philippines’s Western Mindanao Command (left) and Rommel Banlaoi of the Philippine Institute for Peace, Violence and Terrorism Research. The Philippines must address the terror...

Early morning explosion rocks Isulan anew

Sep 7, 2019 | Regions, Top Stories

One of the injured victims lying on the street after the explosion (Photo courtesy of: Eli Elthon) (UPDATED, 3:09PM, 07 Sept. 2019) Isulan, Sultan, Kudarat – An explosion suspected to be from an improvised explosive device (IED) rocked this city early Saturday morning...

‘Military can’t find 100 terrorists hiding in Mindanao’

Jul 25, 2019 | Nation

The military is having trouble confirming the presence of some 100 terrorists said to be hiding in Mindanao, Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana has admitted.Lorenzana made the statement after military’s Western Mindanao Command said earlier this week that seven...