Approaching irrelevance
WHEN President Duterte reopened peace talks with communist rebels shortly after he came to power, there was a glimmer of ...
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Another foreign jihadist killed
SECURITY forces shot dead a suspected foreign jihadist and his female companion after they resisted policemen and soldiers who were ...
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3 ISIS terrorists killed in Sarangani skirmish
THREE members of a jihadist group calling itself Ansar al-Khilafah Philippines or AKP, a group that has pledged allegiance to ...
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Manila Standard website (manilastandard.net), launched in August 2002, extends the newspaper’s reach beyond its traditional readers and makes its brand of Philippine news and opinion available to a much wider and geographically diverse readership here and overseas.