MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine police killed three detained militants linked to the Islamic State group after they staged a jail rampage Sunday that saw a police officer stabbed and a former ...

MANILA, Philippines – Philippine security forces have recaptured 34 out of 158 inmates who escaped after suspected heavily armed Muslim rebels stormed a jail in the country's south, officials said ...

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — About 100 inmates in an overcrowded jail climbed atop the roof of a prison building in the central Philippines and noisily protested with raised fists and placards, saying ...

BACOLOD, Philippines (AP) — Philippine police say 13 inmates, some accused of murder, have escaped from a provincial jail in a central province using a smuggled gun to disarm guards. Police Senior ...

SALEM, Ore. (AP) – A Salem man has died in a Philippines jail after being arrested while on vacation. The Statesman Journal reports that 51-year-old Mark Pikl was on vacation in Cebu City, Philippines ...

KIDAPAWAN, Philippines (AP) – Philippine officials say more than 130 inmates have escaped in one of the largest jailbreaks in recent years after suspected Muslim rebels attacked a jail in the south of ...

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Officials say 10 inmates, including two alleged Chinese drug criminals, died in a suspected grenade blast that rocked a Philippine jail. Senior Inspector Xavier Solda, ...

Attorneys for Lance Cpl. Daniel Smith, with support from the Philippine government, will appeal a judge’s ruling Wednesday to keep the U.S. Marine in a Philippine jail while his rape conviction appeal ...

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine police say 11 detainees including the leader of a notorious bandit group have escaped from a jail by cutting through iron grills with a smuggled hacksaw. MTG ...

Scores of suspected Islamic militants knocked down a concrete wall and barged into a jail in the volatile southern Philippines on Sunday, freeing 31 inmates in a nighttime attack that sparked a ...