The Armed Forces of the Philippines is training its security focus on three provinces in the Bangsamoro region for the elections on May 12.

THE US has deployed an anti-ship missile system to the Philippines ahead of their annual Balikatan (Shoulder-to-Shoulder) joint military exercises, a Philippine military official said on Tuesday.

About 14,000 American and Filipino forces will take part in battle-readiness exercises in the Philippines, including live-fire drills, in a largescale deployment that shows the Trump administration is ...

The United States’ Navy-Marine Expeditionary Ship Interdiction (NMESIS) has arrived in the Philippines, the Armed Forces of the Philippines confirmed on Tuesday.

China’s new Type 09IIIB nuclear-powered attack submarine—known in NATO nomenclature as the Shang-III class—marks a major inflection point in the People’s Liberation Army Navy’s (PLAN) underwater ...

A powerful anti-ship missile system from the United States Marine Corps has reached the Philippine shores and will be seeing action in the upcoming Balikatan Exercise next week, a ranking military ...

The potential sale of U.S. F-16 fighter jets to the Philippines has drawn pushback from China, which views the deal as ...

An overview of conflict, from protests to military and militant violence, in the Asia-Pacific in March 2025. Looking out ...

After the Commission on Elections placed Datu Odin Sinsuat in Maguindanao del Norte under Comelec control over the weekend, ...

The Philippine Army (PA), on March 22, 2025, commemorated the 128th anniversary of its founding. In his speech, Roy Galido PA ...

Candidates in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM), as well as in Sulu province, have committed to ...

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP), headed by authoritarian President Xi Jinping , sees Taiwan as a renegade province to be ...