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Police discovered another abandoned manufacturing site for improvised explosive devices (IED) in the island town of San Antonio, Northern Samar following extensive intelligence gathering in the area. The 1st Northern Samar Provincial Mobile Force Company led by Major Edwin Oloan Read More …
Five improvised explosive devices (IEDs) planted by the New People’s Army were recovered by soldiers of the 701st Infantry Brigade in Sitio Cambaugo, Barangay Rajah Cabungsuan, Municipality of Lingig, Surigao del Sur. Maj. Alex Alod, the civil-military operations officer of Read More …
Philippine troops uncovered last Friday an improvised explosive device (IED) factory while on a combat clearing mission in Maguindanao. In a news release on Sunday, the military said the troops form the 1st Mechanized Infantry Battalion uncovered the factory in Read More …
Three soldiers were wounded in a bomb explosion Thursday while clearing an area occupied by pro-Islamic State militants in the restive Philippine province of Maguindanao, officials said. Maj. Gen. Juvymax Uy, commander of the Joint Task Force Central, said the Read More …
Security forces thwarted a bomb attack by suspected Abu Sayyaf terrorists with the discovery of an improvised explosive device (IED) at a wharf in Jolo, Sulu on Saturday night. The IED was found near the offices of the harbor master Read More …
A roadside bomb ripped through a Philippine Marine vehicle on Friday evening in Datu Hofer, Maguindanao, killing a serviceman and wounding four others. An initial report sent to Col. Arnold Santiago, Maguindanao police director, identified the fatality only as a Read More …
The Army’s 6th Infantry Division (6ID) lauded a civilian for quickly alerting authorities about his discovery of unexploded ordnance in Bagumbayan, Sultan Kudarat on Thursday. Maj. Gen. Juvymax Uy, 6ID commander and chief of Joint Task Force Central (JTFC), said Read More …
Military authorities in Maguindanao said they foiled Wednesday an attempt by suspected Moro bandits to set off roadside bombs after soldiers discovered an improvised explosive device (IED) in Mamasapano town. Maj. Gen. Juvymax Uy, Army’s 6th Infantry Division (ID) commander Read More …
The continued use of the improvised explosive device (IED) by New People’s Army terrorists show that “they don’t value human rights”, a military official said Monday. Lt. Col. Jo-ar Herrera, commander of the 53rd Infantry Battalion (IB), issued the statement Read More …
Concerned citizens tipped off the military to unearth improvised explosive devices in different sites in Pantukan. The latest was on August 20 at Sitio Lusang, Barangay Napnapan, where soldiers of the 28th Infantry Battalion unburied a five-kilo IED that was Read More …
Army intelligence agents killed in a shootout before dawn Wednesday a bomber carrying a powerful improvised explosive device. The still unidentified motorcycle-riding IED courier was shot dead by personnel of the Army’s 602nd Brigade while en route to the center Read More …
Twin explosions have ripped through a town in a restive region of the southern Philippines, killing at least 14 people and wounding 75. Military officials said two bombs went off within an hour of each other in Jolo, Sulu province, Read More …
The devastating explosion in Beirut is a grim reminder of a deeply troubling fact: the thousands of tonnes of ammonium nitrate unsafely stored in that city’s port is not the only site at risk of spontaneous detonation. In the Philippines, Read More …
Government forces conducting security patrol in the hinterlands of Sultan Kudarat province found improvised explosive devices (IEDs) in a suspected communist New People’s Army (NPA) lair on Saturday. Lt. Col. Rommel Valencia, commander of the Army’s 7th Infantry Battalion, said Read More …
A female communist rebel and two soldiers were killed in a fierce battle in a remote village of Daganas, Bulan town in Sorsogon province. Killed in the clash between the military and communist guerillas were PFC Greyan Andus and Corp. Read More …
The Philippine Army’s 3rd Infantry Division (3ID) has credited the collaboration of its Community Support Program (CSP) teams with residents of far-flung villages in locating the hideout of the Communist Party of the Philippines-New People’s Army (CPP-NPA) in southern Negros. Read More …
Philippine Coast Guard personnel on Saturday night seized an “unexploded ordnance” that got accidentally stuck at a vessel’s anchor off Batangas. The device was initially reported as an “explosive type object” and was later verified to be a Projectile 155 Read More …
A policeman and a civilian were killed when an improvised explosive device (IED) exploded along a provincial road in Shariff Aguak in Maguindanao, Thursday night. According to Maguindanao Provincial Police Office Director Col. Arnold Santiago, four other policemen were wounded Read More …
In a move that surprised many, in early June 2020 amid the Philippines’ COVID-19 pandemic challenges, President Rodrigo Duterte certified as “urgent” the Anti-Terrorism Act of 2020. In just a matter of days, the House of Representatives dispensed with any Read More …
A police team killed Wednesday in a brief shootout in Shariff Aguak town in Maguindanao four Dawlah Islamiya members out on a bombing mission. Personnel of the Maguindanao provincial police were forced to neutralize the four bandits riding together a Read More …