GWEN IFILL: Next: protecting civilians in a conflict zone with eyes and a notepad. The island of Mindanao in the Philippines, hit hard by a typhoon earlier this month, has seen separatist conflict ...

Leaders of two heavily armed Moro factions, previously engaged in violent election-related clashes from May to June, swore ...

Deadly violence has gripped the southwestern Philippines since the 1960s and left around 120,000 people dead in what's widely known as the Mindanao conflict. Then in 2014 one major Mindanao rebel ...

Mindanao crisis: A city on fire. All of a sudden, the Philippines is grappling with the spectre of ISIL and, for some, Marcosian authoritarianism.

The Mindanao Trust Fund (MTF) enables development agencies to pool resources and coordinate support for conflict-affected areas in Mindanao. The MTF is administered by the World Bank, which ...

As the conflicts raging in Mindanao become more asymmetric, the use of IEDs enables militants to inflict damage on the military and strike fear into communities, ...

Mindanao is the second largest island in the Philippines . It's also home to the most of the region's minority Muslim community known as the Moros. Conflict in the region flared up in the 1960s ...

BDA is funded by the Mindanao Trust Fund, a multi-donor grant facility that has provided infrastructure to nearly half a million people across 220 conflict-affected communities in Mindanao. Eighty-six ...

In order to put a dent in resolving the conflict in Mindanao, we must put our trust in “rebels and crazies.†By rebels, I don’t mean people who rely on the business-as-usual approach of violent ...

The Philippines’ southern region of Mindanao has a history of war and armed conflict going back more than 400 years. The contemporary conflict’s origin in this region of 26.3 million people is ...