Sources: National Geographic
Nine activists are killed in police raids in the northern Philippines two days after President Rodrigo Duterte ordered government forces to kill communists in the country. 2021-03-7
The Philippines reports 239 deaths in the past 24 hours, the second-highest number of daily reported deaths since the beginning of the pandemic, thereby bringing the nationwide death toll to 12,068. 2021-02-20
The Philippines reports 157 deaths in the past 24 hours, which is the highest single-day total in five months, thereby bringing the nationwide death toll to 11,829. 2021-02-19
The Philippines temporarily suspends sending workers to Qatar. 2017-06-6
United States State Department blocks the sale of firearms to the Philippines due to concerns of human rights violations. 2016-11-2
The Philippines' current crackdown on controlled substances passes a death toll of 500. 2016-07-21
Fifteen people are killed and 11 injured in a fire at the public markets at Zamboanga City in the Philippines. 2015-10-31
Typhoon Haiyan, one of the strongest tropical cyclones in recorded history to make landfall, hits the Visayas in the Philippines, with at least three people dead. 2013-11-8
Suspected Abu Sayyaf gunmen abduct two United States citizens and a Filipino relative from an island village in Zamboanga City in the Philippines. 2011-07-12
A bomb attack on a bus on the southern Philippine island of Mindanao kills at least seven people. 2010-10-21