FILE - In this photo provided by the Philippine Coast Guard, a Chinese Coast Guard ship, right, uses its water cannons on a Philippine Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) vessel, as it ...

MANILA (Reuters) -The Philippines and the European Union have agreed to start a dialogue on security and defence in order to tackle emerging threats like cyber attacks and foreign interference, ...

Philippine Foreign Secretary Enrique Manalo meets with the EU’s foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas in Manila, Philippines, June 2, 2025. Credit: X/Enrique A. Manalo The Philippines has agreed to ...

China's activity in the contested South China Sea is "hindering" Filipino companies from exploring natural resources in the ...

A top Philippine general wants a new US missile system to remain in the country "forever" to boost its defenses and deterrence capabilities. The American weapon, the Mid-Range Capability missile ...

U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Secretary of State Antony Blinken pose for a photograph with Philippine Foreign Secretary Enrique Manalo and Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro in Manila, ...

MANILA (Reuters) -The Philippines sought to assure China on Friday that the presence of a U.S. intermediate range missile system on its territory posed no threat to China and would not be a ...

Last month, Philippine Foreign Secretary Enrique Manalo said his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi expressed China's "very dramatic" concern over the U.S. mid-range missile deployment to the Philippines ...

The United States announced $500 million in military funding for the Philippines on Tuesday to modernize the country’s armed forces in what Secretary of State Antony Blinken called a ...

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — American and Filipino security officials have agreed to keep a U.S. mid-range missile system in the northern Philippines indefinitely to boost deterrence despite China’s ...

Japan and the Philippines are urging President-elect Donald Trump to sustain U.S. engagement in Asia amid rising tensions with China. Newsweek has contacted the Japanese and Philippine presidential ...

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — China expressed its “very dramatic” alarm over a mid-range missile system that the U.S. military recently deployed to the Philippines, and warned it could destabilize the ...