The plane was conducting intelligence and reconnaissance support “at the request of our Philippine allies,” according to the ...

For a long time, these jungled islands were known as sites of war between the Philippine military and Muslim Moro insurgents, including several radical groups that carried out kidnappings ...

Gunmen killed two soldiers and wounded 12 others who were deployed to secure a U.N. livelihood project in the southern Philippines, military officials said Thursday.

With 14,000 MILF fighters still armed and tensions rising among political clans, analysts warn the polls may reignite the ...

Jolo has long been home to a number of Islamic insurgent groups -- the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF), the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), and others. The most recent one, Abu Sayyaf ...

The Moro rebel front was the largest secessionist Muslim insurgent group in the southern Philippines, the homeland of minority Muslims in the largely Roman Catholic nation, until it signed a 2014 ...