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Swiss hostage escapes Abu Sayyaf extremists in south Philippines, gets wounded

MANILA, Philippines — A Swiss hostage escaped Saturday from Abu Sayyaf extremists after hacking one militant commander and getting shot …

500,000 Filipinos evacuated as storm’s path widens

MANILA, Philippines — Half a million Filipinos fled their homes as differing forecasts about the path of a dangerously erratic …

Wide swath of the Philippines carry out evacuations, brace for dangerously erratic typhoon

MANILA, Philippines—A wide swathe of the Philippines, including the bustling capital Manila, braced Friday as a dangerously erratic and powerful …

Approaching Philippine typhoon brings back nightmares in central region devastated by Haiyan

MANILA, Philippines—Villagers fled coastal homes and sparked panic-buying in grocery stores and gas stations in the central Philippines on Thursday …

5 years after Philippine massacre, justice still elusive, witnesses are killed, trial drags on

MANILA, Philippines — Five years after gunmen flagged down a convoy of cars in a southern Philippine province and massacred …

Amid murder case, top Philippine diplomat says pact with US ‘imperfect’ but likely to stay

MANILA, Philippines — A security pact that allows thousands of American troops to join large-scale combat exercises in the Philippines …

2 rings of security 1 US, 1 Filipino around arrested Marine reflect sore spot in relations

MANILA, Philippines—American forces are guarding Marine Pfc. Joseph Scott Pemberton, yet a ring of Filipino troops surrounds them. The seemingly redundant security effort …

Murder suspect transferred to Philippine camp, guarded by fellow US Marines after deal reached

MANILA, Philippines—A U.S. Marine suspected in the gruesome killing of a transgender Filipino was flown Wednesday from his warship to the Philippine military’s main camp, …

US Marine suspected in transgender killing in Philippines tests country’s American alliance

OLONGAPO, Philippines — Inside a funeral parlour, a Filipino mother sits and weeps next to a coffin containing the body …

PH military tracker dogs to help look for Germans and other hostages held by militants

MANILA, Philippines — The Philippine military is deploying 10 teams of tracker dogs to help locate about a dozen hostages …

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