Army-NPA clash in Surigao del Sur leaves 2 soldiers dead
By Frances Mangosing
Government troops clashed with communist rebels in Surigao del Sur on Monday killing two soldiers, the military said Tuesday.
Government troops clashed with communist rebels in Surigao del Sur on Monday killing two soldiers, the military said Tuesday.
Four armed men were arrested by Army soldiers in the village of Sulpa in Siruma, Camarines Sur at 10 p.m. of May 12.
Two government soldiers, including an Army major, were killed while four others were wounded when ambushed by suspected Abu Sayyaf bandits in Al Barka town in Basilan on Monday afternoon.
The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) has a new mouthpiece. Brig. Gen. Domingo Tutaan has been designated as the new spokesman of the 125,000-strong force, replacing Col. Arnulfo Burgos Jr. who had been the voice and face of the military since 2010.
Algerian special forces on Thursday launched a rescue operation on a desert gas complex, killing fleeing Islamists and an unknown number of their hostages, the communication minister said.
A tribal leader in the Sierra Madre mountain range in northern Quezon on Thursday appealed to the government and communist rebels to observe a longer ceasefire.
For Emily (not her real name), the jungle was the safest place to spend the night in with her two children—a year-old baby and a 10-year-old son—weeks after the grenade explosion that wounded more than 40 people in Paquibato District here.
The military in Eastern Visayas will provide security to Northern Samar Gov. Paul Daza and his father, Rep. Raul Daza, who have been tagged as “enemies of the people” by the National Democratic Front (NDF).
Another key military post has turned vacant as an Army commander retired from service, bringing to four the number of unoccupied major positions.
After the success of their “Project Shoebox,” soldiers from the Army’s 4th Light Armor Battalion (LAB) and their partners on Tuesday launched “Noche Buena Mo, Nasa Shoebox Ko” to brighten up the holidays for 5,000 indigent families in remote areas in the country.
The Commission on Human Rights (CHR) said Monday it would investigate a report by the military that it had exhumed a mass grave containing some 40 suspected victims of a communist rebel purge in the 1980s.
A New People’s Army amazona who was pregnant when she was killed could be one of the buried skeletal remains in a newly discovered mass grave in San Francisco, Quezon, an Army official said.
A bemedalled warfighter now heads the civil military operations (CMO) group of the Philippine Army.
