MANILA--The president of the Philippines ... a clash in the disputed South China Sea, but added the Philippines would never instigate a war. President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. flew with his top ...
World War II interrupted the transition to ... MacArthur and the U.S. army returned to the Philippines in 1944. After a bloody battle for Manila, the islands were declared liberated once more.
But having experienced nearly a half-century of violence, including decades caught up in the global “war on terror,” the southern Philippines ... she said in Manila, the Philippine capital.