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Lumang paliparan sa Palawan, gagamitin para sa military aircraft

Hazel Salas, ABS-CBN News
Posted at May 05 05:56 PM

PUERTO PRINCESA – Militar na ang gagamit at mamahala sa lumang paliparan ng Puerto Princesa matapos ilipat sa bagong international airport ng Palawan ang operasyon ng mga commercial airlines at cargo forwarders. Read more »

23 Abu Sayyaf members surrender, military says

ABS-CBN News
Posted at May 05 02:48 PM

Twenty-three members of the Abu Sayyaf recently surrendered in the provinces of Basilan and Sulu, the military said. Read more »

Namit gid! 8 must-try treats from Western Visayas

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Apr 29 07:35 AM

Warm smiles, friendly locals, great beaches, and good food – this is what keep tourists coming back to Western Visayas. Read more »

Soldier abducted by Abu Sayyaf in Sulu, military confirms

RJ Rosalado, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Apr 20 11:33 PM

The Western Mindanao Command identified the soldier as Staff Sergeant Anni Siraji of the 32nd Infantry Batallion. Read more »

Australia warns citizens against travel to Mindanao

Trishia Billones, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Apr 11 11:18 AM

Citing "very high risk," the Australian government advised its people not to go to Central and Western Mindanao, including the Zamboanga Peninsula, and the Sulu Archipelago and southern Sulu Sea. Read more »

Duterte sa mga sundalo: Ipagtanggol ang West PH Sea

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Oct 20 05:55 PM

Gawin lamang umano ng mga sundalo ang kanilang trabaho bilang tagapagtanggol ng mga isla sa West Philippine Sea, at sagot niya na ang mga ito. Kasama na rito ang pangakong maayos na pabahay. Read more »

Duterte visits Western Command

Karl Norman Alonzo, Malacanang Photo
Posted at Apr 06 09:13 PM

President Rodrigo Duterte joins the boodle fight with troops of the Western Command (WesCom) during his visit to their headquarters at Camp General Artemio G. Ricarte in Puerto Princesa, Palawan on Thursday. Duterte urged the members of the Armed Forces of the Philippines to help secure islands at the West Philippine Sea. Read more »

Magnitude 4.2 quake shakes Samar

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Apr 02 01:07 PM

A magnitude 4.2 earthquake rattled parts of Western Samar on Sunday morning, the Philippine Institute for Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) said. Read more »

Soldiers overrun NPA camp in Misamis Occidental

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Mar 21 10:00 AM

ZAMBOANGA CITY – Government troops overran a camp of the New People’s Army (NPA) and confiscated several war materials in Misamis Occidental. Read more »

4 members of Maute group arrested in Lanao del Sur

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Mar 17 08:16 PM

Four members of the Maute group were arrested in Lanao del Sur early Thursday morning, the Western Mindanao Command reported. Read more »

4 suspected Abu Sayyaf bandits killed in Basilan

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Mar 10 12:24 AM

Four members of the Abu Sayyaf Group, including a relative of terrorist leader Isnilon Hapilon, were killed in a military offensive on Wednesday morning in Basilan province, the Armed Forces' Western Mindanao Command (Wesmincom) said Thursday. Read more »

Alleged bandit killed in Basilan

RJ Rosalado, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Mar 09 12:11 AM

BASILAN - A suspected bandit was killed by joint police and military troops in Barangay Tapiantana, Tabuan-Lasa town in Basilan on Wednesday dawn, a police official said.  Read more »

20 Abu Sayyaf members killed in 3-day military ops in Sulu

Jewel Reyes and Nickee Butlangan, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Mar 05 06:33 PM

ZAMBOANGA CITY -- At least 20 members of the Abu Sayyaf group were killed in a series of military operations in Sulu, the Western Mindanao Command reported on Sunday. Read more »

Abella hits AI, says Duterte 'just a datu looking after common good'

Art Fuentes, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Feb 22 09:32 PM

Presidential spokesman Ernesto Abella on Wednesday hit back at Amnesty International (AI) for criticizing President Rodrigo Duterte's human rights record.  Read more »