Twin encounters Monday morning in the hinterlands of Barangay Pianing, Butuan City, resulted in the death of an unidentified ...

Government troops recovered a dozen firearms from communist rebels in a string of operations across Caraga Region from June ...

The Philippine Daily Inquirer quoted Brig. Gen. Antonio Parlade Jr. as saying Wednesday that the New People’s Army (NPA), the armed wing of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP), was ...

Members of the New People's Army communist insurgency hold their weapons at their guerrilla encampment in the Sierra Madre mountains, southeast of Manila, Philippines, Nov. 23, 2016 (AP photo by ...

The NPA’s staying power and deadly reach are rooted in the Philippines’ deep poverty and the group’s ability raise large sums of money, even after the US labeled it a terrorist group in 2002. It ...

MANILA, Dec 23 (Reuters) - Communist rebels in the Philippines said on Sunday they would hold off from attacking military and police on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day and also on Dec. 31 and Jan ...

The CPP-NPA was designated a foreign terrorist organization by the United States State Department in 2002. The study, which ranks the Philippines ninth of 162 countries in the terrorism index ...

Manila: From vaunted ideologies, the communist New People’s Army (NPA) has degenerated into a mere group of extortionists bilking politicians and businesses, the presidential palace said ...