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, ...

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.

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