When Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. took office in June 2022, it was thanks in part to a political alliance he struck with his predecessor, former President Rodrigo Duterte, and his ...

MANILA, Jan 23 (Reuters) - The Philippines has signalled a softened stance towards an International Criminal Court (ICC) investigation into thousands of killings in a "war on drugs", a probe activists ...

The United Nations estimates that more than 8,000 people have been killed in the Philippines’ so-called "war on drugs." In 2022, when the Philippines’ current president Ferdinand Marcos Jr. took ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. After taking office in 2022, Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., courting ...

Rodrigo Duterte was arrested by the International Criminal Court on March 11 on the charge of "murder as a crime against humanity." But while the Philippines' ex-president may face punishment for his ...

The convictions are the first major rebuke to police since Duterte's election. LONDON -- Three police officers have been found guilty of murder in a potentially landmark ruling for the ongoing war on ...

The "painfully slow" reconstruction of a Philippine city flattened in a war with Islamic militants is causing discontent, the head of the International Committee of the Red Cross said Tuesday.