The Philippines is strengthening its military to defend its archipelagic territory amid China's presence in the South China Sea.

The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), along with the Philippine Navy (PN), monitored a total of 19,655 local and foreign ...

Manila’s new offshore patrol vessels will serve as a sustained maritime presence in the South China Sea in protection of ...

The Philippine Navy frigate BRP Diego Silang (FFG-07) is pictured on its delivery voyage from South Korea to Subic Bay. (Philippine Navy) CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand — Once reliant on aging, second-hand ...

The Philippine Navy on Sunday said it is continuing search and rescue (SAR) operations in the West Philippine Sea following ...

BATANES, Philippines — Marilyn Hubalde still remembers the first time she heard the thunderous chop of military helicopters swooping over this northernmost outpost of the Philippines, less than 90 ...

MANILA, Philippines — The Philippine Navy's first of six offshore patrol vessels from South Korea, the future BRP Rajah Sulayman, arrived in the country over the weekend, marking the first delivery in ...

China's military claimed it drove off a Philippine coast guard plane and called on Manila to cease its "provocations." ...

Philippine officials have grounded the entire fleet of passenger ships belonging to a company that owned a ferry that sank in ...

The Philippine Navy rejected China’s claim that the Philippines illegally designated a “large-scale exercise zone" in the Wes ...

The Philippine Navy said on Tuesday that it monitored at least 48 Chinese vessels across four key areas of the West Philippine Sea this week.