Ships carrying Chinese military personnel for Beijing's first overseas military base, in Djibouti in the Horn of Africa, have left China to begin setting up the facility as China's rapidly modernizing military hones its global reach.

The Chinese aircraft carrier Liaoning entered Taiwan's air defense identification zone early on Wednesday morning on its way back from Hong Kong and is being monitored, Taiwan's defense ministry said, adding there was no cause for alarm.

The United States and Qatar signed an agreement on Tuesday aimed at combating the financing of terrorism, as U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson visited Doha to try to end a month-long rift between Western-allied Arab states.

Despite a survey showing the majority of Filipinos opposed to expanding martial law beyond Mindanao, this will depend “on the situation on the ground as assessed and recommended by military and police authorities,” Malacañang said on Wednesday.

Another slot, the one vacated by Ed Lejano, remains open for a representative of independent cinema.

She opened a children's hospital named after her adopted daughter Mercy James in Malawi's second-largest city.

A year since the Permanent Court of Arbitration upheld the country’s claim to territory in the West Philippine Sea, foreign affairs experts criticized President Rodrigo Duterte for his continued refusal to invoke the verdict in the face of China’s aggressive militarization in the region

A couple who own a phone repair shop in Bacolod City and their employee were arrested by police late Monday afternoon after they sold crystal meth or “shabu” to an undercover officer.

Government forces who have been battling extremists in Marawi City since May 23 received support from a fellow warrior who has been battling the Islamic State half a world away.

After giving up on setting deadlines to clear Marawi City of the extremist gunmen who have been battling government forces since May 23, President Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday again predicted an end to the crisis in, at most, half a month.

A tricycle driver was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of stabbing dead an American in Caloocan City.

Then presidential candidate Donald Trump's eldest son eagerly agreed last year to meet a woman he was told was a Russian government lawyer who might have information incriminating Democratic rival Hillary Clinton as part of Moscow's official support for his father, according to an email chain released on Tuesday.

A drone-recorded video clip shows a group of armed men, garbed in black, on the move at a street in Marawi's war zone, supporting...

(UPDATE - 7:20 a.m.) Results of the Second Quarter 2017 Social Weather Survey showed that, while 57% support President Rodrigo R. Duterte's declaration of Martial Law in Mindanao, more than 6 out of 10 oppose expanding it to Visayas and Luzon.

CAIRO/BEIRUT - The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights told Reuters on Tuesday that it had "confirmed information" that Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi...