Three communist rebels were killed while three soldiers were injured in a clash in Tigbao, Zamboanga del Sur around 2:45 p.m. Wednesday, a report reaching the military’s Western Mindanao Command (Westmincom) based here, said.
A public school teacher kidnapped five weeks ago was freed in Sulu Monday morning, a military official said later in the day.
The retirement of two senior officers of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), including its number two man, has triggered a top-level revamp in the military organization.
“They stuck together and refused to leave each other.” That and not operational lapses, according to the military, was the reason why many soldiers were killed or wounded in a clash with Abu Sayyaf bandits in Basilan province on Thursday.
Kidnapped Sulu midwife Rosalyn Kiram, 54, was freed by her captors around 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, Colonel Jose Cenabre, deputy Naval commander for Western Mindanao, said.
The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) have begun mobilizing to bring much needed relief supplies to victims of tropical storm “Sendong” (international name: WASHI) in Mindanao, an AFP spokesperson said Monday.
Suspected Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) guerrillas struck twice on Sunday, leaving five civilians and two more soldiers dead amid a rising clamor for swift military action against the perpetrators of the worst government losses in years. The Western Mindanao Command (Wesmincom) reported that Hassan Asnawi, a commander of the MILF’s 114th Base Command, led [...]
A top marine officer profited from deals during negotiations for the release of three International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) workers kidnapped by the Abu Sayyaf in 2009, then Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro was quoted as saying in a confidential US cable released by WikiLeaks. The officer named in the cable released by the [...]
The entrance to the Armed Forces of the Philippines’ Western Mindanao Command headquarters is now bombproof.
