MANILA, Philippines (AP) — One U.S. service member and three defense contractors were killed Thursday when a plane contracted by the U.S. military crashed in a rice field in the southern Philippines, ...

Office of Civil Defense (OCD) administrator Undersecretary Ariel Nepomuceno reiterated his call for a more stringent ...

US Defense chief Pete Hegseth met Philippine Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro Jr. on Wednesday, February 5, and reaffirmed US' "ironclad" commitment to the 1951 Mutual Defense Treaty.