Soldiers in Tanjay receive ambulance
THE medical and dental team of the Philippine Army’s 302nd Brigade based in Camp Leon Kilat, Tanjay City received a new field ambulance named KM 451 and other medical equipment.
THE medical and dental team of the Philippine Army’s 302nd Brigade based in Camp Leon Kilat, Tanjay City received a new field ambulance named KM 451 and other medical equipment.
The National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) has busted a gun-for-hire group allegedly led by an active member of the Philippine Army with the arrest of four of its members and the seizure of more than 100 firearms.
A suspected communist rebel was killed in a clash with government soldiers in Aguinaldo, Ifugao, on Sunday, police and military reports said.
Five soldiers of the Philippine Army’s 16th Field Artillery Battalion based in Bagumbayan in Sultan Kudarat were rushed to a hospital after lightning struck them around 10:30 a.m. on Wednesday.
Close to 70 families have fled to safer ground as village defenders and suspected cattle rustlers clashed, on Saturday morning, in a remote town in North Cotabato, leaving two village watchmen hurt.
The government has created teams of environment and interior department officers as well as police and military forces to boost the campaign against illegal logging in Western Visayas, the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) said Saturday.
Close to 3,000 individuals from three adjoining villages here have fled their homes as rival Moro rebel groups continue war posturing despite localized truce.
Fighting between members of the Moro National Liberation Front and Moro Islamic Liberation Front broke out in Matalam, North Cotabato, on Thursday.
Three Army soldiers were wounded after they clashed with armed men in Pinukpuk, Kalinga, on Wednesday, police said.
The elections in Bicol and Southern Tagalog have been free of harassment by New People’s Army guerrillas because the rebels themselves participated in the elections, a regional spokesman of the military claimed.
Communist rebels admitted they have in their custody a policeman and a soldier, who went missing in North Cotabato and Compostela Valley last week.
A new commander of the Army’s 4th Infantry Division will temporarily take over on Friday in the wake of the Gingoog ambush over the weekend.
The Philippine Army on Thursday appealed to a former disbursing officer of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) accused of pocketing government funds to face the charges against him.
