The numbers — 70,000 detained, 35,000 tortured, 3,200 killed — represent the victims of President Ferdinand E. Marcos’ era of martial law, from 1972 to 1986. They mark one of the darkest ...

Protests are emerging in the Philippine against ultra-hardline President Rodrigo Duterte's declaration of martial law in the southern island of Mindanao last month. Over 100 former and current ...

The Philippines government has voted to extend martial law in the southern island of Mindanao, following a year in which Islamic militants shocked the nation in taking – and holding, for several ...

The move to keep martial law in the Muslim-dominated south was requested by President Rodrigo Duterte. The decree is worrisome to many Filipinos who remember a deadly era of martial law in the 1970s.

GENERAL SANTOS, Philippines — The Philippine president imposed martial law Saturday on a southern province where 57 people were killed in a political massacre, while security forces detained ...

Many Filipinos see martial law under Ferdinand Marcos as a kind of "golden age" for the Philippines. U.S. World; ... who imposed martial law in the Philippines from 1972 until 1981.

6 p.m. Hundreds of protesters have marched to the Philippine presidential palace in Manila to protest President Rodrigo Duterte's declaration of martial law in the southern Mindanao region, where ...

Fifty years after the declaration of martial law in the Philippines, survivors and activists in the country and around the world are commemorating what's widely considered to be a dark chapter in ...

He imposed martial law in the Philippines in September 1972 and finally was ousted in a 1986 army-backed “People Power” pro-democracy uprising.

Several weeks ago, we marked the 52nd anniversary of the Philippines’ declaration of martial law. Today, the former dictator’s son—Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr.—is now in office.

The Philippines government has voted to extend martial law in the southern island of Mindanao, following a year in which Islamic militants shocked the nation in taking -- and holding, for several ...