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MANILA, Philippines — Eleven Philippine Army soldiers were killed Saturday morning in an ambush by suspected communist rebels in the southern Oriental Mindoro town of Mansalay, a military official said.
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COTABATO, Philippines -- Philippine security forces captured a camp of leftist rebels and several improvise bombs in the southern part of the country, a regional military spokesman said on Saturday.
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BASILAN, Philippines -- A core member of the Abu Sayyaf group, who was involved in the 2001 kidnapping incident in Dos Palmas Beach Resort, was arrested Friday morning at a joint military checkpoint in Lamitan City, this province.
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MANILA, Philippines—The military claimed a major victory in its war against the Abu Sayyaf Sunday when Marines assaulted the bandits’ lair and killed six of them, including a top leader with a $5-million bounty on his head.
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BASILAN, Philippines – An Army soldier was killed and 12 others were wounded in two separate roadside bombings Tuesday in Sumisip, Basilan province.
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NAGA CITY, Philippines—A militia man and a rebel were killed while two other government men were wounded in a clash between government troops and suspected members of the New People’s Army Friday afternoon in Donsol, Sorsogon, an Army official said Saturday.
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TAGUM CITY, Philippines -- A high-ranking communist leader in southern Mindanao was captured following an encounter between government troops and New People’s Army (NPA) rebels in Compostela Valley on Saturday afternoon, police and military officials confirmed Sunday.
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DAVAO, Philippines – Three New People's Army rebels were killed and one was wounded in an encounter with government troops in a far-flung village in Laak town, Compostela Valley Saturday afternoon, the military said on Sunday.
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ZAMBOANGA CITY, Philippines – Philippine authorities on Friday stepped up security following three small explosions in the southern port city of Zamboanga previously bombed by al Qaeda-linked Abu Sayyaf militants.
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MANILA, Philippines -- Six Philippine soldiers were wounded in a landmine blast in Makilala, North Cotabato Tuesday evening, the military said.
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DAVAO CITY, Philippines — Authorities clashed with gunmen believed to be members of a militia loyal to the Ampatuan clan in Shariff Aguak, Maguindanao, in the wake of the continuing manhunt for private armies, police said yesterday.
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COTABATO CITY, Philippines – Three civilians were killed after a group of suspected Muslim rebels stormed a village in North Cotabato province, a military spokesman said today.
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MANILA, Philippine -- Government troops apprehended three suspected members of the rebel group New People' s Army, a senior military official said Friday.
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DAVAO CITY, Philippines – Troops clashed with New People’s Army on Thursday in Davao City, a day after communist rebels seized an executive of a banana plantation cooperative and used him as shield in raiding the farm in the southern Philippines, officials said on Thursday.
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BULACAN, Philippines -- Seven suspected communist rebels were killed in a clash in the northern Philippine province of Bulacan early Thursday morning, the spokesperson for the Philippine Army said.
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ILOILO CITY, Philippines – Army soldiers foiled an attempt on the part of the New People’s Army (NPA) rebels to blow up the Globe Telecommunication cell site in Sipalay, Negros Occidental.
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SULU, Philippines -- A grenade blast rocked a Catholic Cathedral in Sulu province before dawn Sunday. Probers said that while the explosion caused minor damage to the cathedral, there was no report of casualty.
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BASILAN, Philippines -- The Abu Sayyaf on Monday released its nineteen-year-old hostage after more than four months of holding him captive in Basilan, said Philippine National Police spokesman Chief Superintendent Leonardo Espina.
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MALOLOS, Bulacan — A top New People's Army (NPA) leader of the local communist movement in Central Luzon surrendered to Bulacan Governor Joselito Roxas Mendoza the other day.
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MANILA, Philippines - The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) on Sunday denounced the New People’s Army (NPA) for violating its own unilateral suspension of military offensives (SOMO) declared for the holidays by burning a public high school building in Catanauan town in Quezon province early Saturday morning.
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QUEZON, Philippines – Suspected New People’s Army guerrillas burned a school building in Catanauan town in Quezon province after midnight yesterday – the 41st anniversary of the Communist Party of the Philippines – even as a unilateral suspension of military operations against the rebel group was still in effect.
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NEGROS ORIENTAL, Philippines - Two suspected officials of the New People's Army (NPA) were killed when Army soldiers overran an alleged rebel camp in Negros Oriental province on Monday.
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MANILA, Philippines—The entire police force in the Calabarzon (Cavite, Laguna, Batangas, Rizal, and Quezon) region was placed on full alert status following the raid by suspected New People's Army members in a police station in Quezon province on Sunday.
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ZAMBOANGA CITY , Philippines — Two improvised bombs exploded in the outskirts of Jolo and the military tightened security in the tense capital town at dawn yesterday.
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BACOLOD CITY, Philippines -- Military troopers and policemen in Negros Occidental went on red alert status effective yesterday, as the Communist Party of the Philippines marks its 41 st founding anniversary on Dec. 26.
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SAMAR, Philippines -- One NPA member named Alger M Abalos aka Fredie surrendered to 1st Lt. Dario Wayagwag of the Charlie Company of the 52nd Infantry Battalion (IB) based in Barangay Pequit, Paranas, Samar.
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ZAMBOANGA CITY, Philippines – An improvised explosive planted near a road went off Wednesday in the southern Filipino province of Sulu, but there were no reports of casualties, security officials said.
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ZAMBOANGA CITY -- A powerful bomb ripped and caused a fire that gutted the main police headquarters in the capital town of Jolo in Sulu province early Saturday morning.
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MANILA, Philippines -- Irish priest Fr. Michael Sinnot was freed by his captors at dawn today in Zamboanga City, authorities said.
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SULU, Philippines -- A month after his abduction, a Mindanao elementary school principal was beheaded and his head was left at a gas station in Sulu province early Monday, a ranking military official said.
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MANILA, Philippines -- Four suspected members of the communist New People’s Army (NPA) were captured in a military operation Saturday in Sorsogon province.
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11 soldiers dead in NPA ambush in Oriental Mindoro

Sunday, 07 March 2010
MANILA, Philippines — Eleven Philippine Army soldiers were killed Saturday morning in an ambush by suspected communist rebels in the southern Oriental Mindoro town of Mansalay, a military official said.
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Troops overran leftist rebels' camp in Compostella

Sunday, 07 March 2010
COTABATO, Philippines -- Philippine security forces captured a camp of leftist rebels and several improvise bombs in the southern part of the country, a regional military spokesman said on Saturday.
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Camarines town council bet who refused to pay rebels slain

Saturday, 06 March 2010
LEGAZPI CITY , Philippines – A candidate for town councilor was gunned down by suspected communist rebels for reportedly refusing to pay permit-to-campaign fee in Pasacao, Camarines Sur Thursday, a report reaching Camp General Simeon Ola here said.
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NPA poll extortion may reach P5 billion

Saturday, 06 March 2010
MANILA, Philippines - The New People’s Army (NPA) may generate as much as P5 billion from its extortion activities this year mainly from permits that would allow candidates to campaign within areas considered as their strongholds, an official of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) said yesterday.
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