TAWI-TAWI, Philippines — As rebrands go, the southern islands of the Philippines face what has to be among the toughest challenges. For a long time, these jungled islands were known as sites of ...

MANILA, June 20 (Xinhua) -- Philippine troops clashed with suspected rebels in Sultan Kudarat province in the southern Philippines on Thursday, killing four, including one soldier, the military has ...

Japan’s coast guard has held a joint exercise with counterparts from the United States and the Philippines, as the three ...

At least 27 people have been injured in an explosion of confiscated illegal fireworks in the southern Philippines. Two victims were seriously injured and hospitalized in Zamboanga, where the mayor ...

The Moro Islamic Liberation Front was the largest Muslim separatist armed group in the southern Philippines, homeland of minority Muslims in the largely Roman Catholic nation, until it signed a ...

MANILA, Philippines — One U.S. service member and three defense contractors were killed Thursday when a plane contracted by the U.S. military crashed in a rice field in the southern Philippines ...

Dec. 2 (UPI) --At least three people were killed and 32 hospitalized in the southern Philippines over the weekend after eating a local dish prepared with sea turtle, an endangered species.

If confirmed to be a case of kidnapping for ransom, it would be the latest reminder of the long-running security problems that have hounded the southern Philippines, the homeland of a Muslim ...