LAOAG, Philippines (AP) — U.S. and Philippine forces, backed by an Australian air force surveillance aircraft, unleashed a barrage of high-precision rockets, artillery fire and airstrikes Wednesday and sank a mock enemy ship as part of large-scale war drills in and near the disputed South China Sea that have antagonized Beijing. Military officials and diplomats […]
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine forces killed an Abu Sayyaf militant, who had been implicated in past beheadings, including of 10 Filipino marines and two kidnapped Vietnamese, in a clash in the south, police officials said Friday. Philippine police, backed by military intelligence agents, killed Nawapi Abdulsaid in a brief gunbattle Wednesday night in the […]
SEOUL, South Korea — The U.S. and the Philippines kicked off joint military drills Monday in the flashpoint South China Sea, drawing immediate protests from China. The drills began on the same day that a four-day, high-level naval symposium got underway in the Chinese port city of Qingdao, offering senior officers from the U.S. and […]
SEOUL, South Korea — Washington will be abuzz with summitry this week as President Biden welcomes two key Asian allies, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., to the White House for a string of bilateral and trilateral meetings that will likely feature China as the main topic of conversation. Mr. […]
MANILA, Philippines — The Philippine president said Thursday that his government would enforce a “countermeasure package” in response to “aggressive and dangerous attacks” by the Chinese coast guard and suspected militia ships in the disputed South China Sea, saying “Filipinos do not yield.” Ferdinand Marcos Jr. did not provide details of the actions his government […]
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