A hundred rapid deployment Army troops, trained in ranger-style maneuvers, arrived in Basilan on Sunday, April 20, to support ...

A hundred rapid deployment Army combatants, trained in ranger-style maneuvers, arrived in Basilan on Sunday to support the security efforts of the Commission on Elections in the island province. Brig.

“We have our own identity that is unique,” said Sitti Djalia Hataman, mayor of Isabela, a port city on Basilan. Muslims are a minority in the Philippines, which is overwhelmingly ...

Both groups claim to represent the approximately 4.5 million Muslims in the Philippines, the majority of whom live in southern Mindanao, the Sulu archipelago, Palawan, Basilan, and neighboring ...

THE education community in Basilan province got a major boost with the inauguration of a three-story building at the Mindanao ...

As a young doctor in Basilan, Arlyn Jawad Jumao-as came face ... bleeding to death, or when I see [Muslim] religious leaders cleaning up mangled bodies [for burial],” Jumao-as told the Inquirer ...

Two soldiers were killed while another was injured after they were ambushed by armed men in Barangay Dugaa, Tuburan, Basilan. The fatalities were identified as Sergeant Reymark Bation and Corporal ...

AUTHORITIES have arrested three high-value targets (HVTs) as they dismantled a drug den in an anti-drug operation in Basilan ...