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AFP strongly condemns the detention of its journalist and photographer Yasin Akgül and calls for his immediate release. This is a serious attack on the freedom of the media. According to the ...
The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) reiterated Thursday that it was an apolitical organization tasked to maintain the country's stability, following remarks from Vice President Sara Duterte ...
RIZAL, Philippines — The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) has neither confirmed nor denied reports that officials of the now-dissolved Vice Presidential Security and Protection Group (VPSPG ...
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Padilla also addressed rumors circulating online that there were resignations within the AFP following Duterte’s arrest. “No, walang katotohanan po ito. There are no resignations in the AFP po. Kung ...
MANILA, Philippines — The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) has welcomed reports saying that another Mid-Range Capability (MRC) Typhon missile from the United States Indo-Pacific Command ...
It had been nearly two years since AFP journalist Abdelmoneim Abu Idris Ali set foot in his home in war-torn Khartoum, after ...
AFP spokesperson Col. Francel Margareth Padilla said this figure was monitored from January 1 to March 20. “A total of 254 Communist Terrorist Group (CTG) members and supporters were neutralized ...
So we accept this willingly,” Padilla said at a press briefing in Camp Aguinaldo, Quezon City. In the same briefing, AFP public affairs chief Col. Xerxes Trinidad said, “the more equipment, the better ...
“At this stage, we prefer not to make any further comments,” AFP told POLITICO. İmamoğlu, a highly popular secularist, has been seen as a contender to succeed the Islamist Erdoğan. He has been ...
MANILA, Philippines — Did Vice President Sara Duterte suggest that the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and the Philippine National Police (PNP) should have clashed over the arrest of her ...
(Photo by Genya SAVILOV / AFP) Russia advanced 240 square kilometers (93 square miles) into Ukrainian territory in March, marking a slowdown for four months in a row, according to AFP’s analysis of ...