Victims of Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs have called for the former president’s immediate trial on charges of crimes against humanity before the International Criminal Court.

Rodrigo Duterte, the former president of the Philippines, has appealed last week’s decision by the International Criminal ...

Joel Ejorcadas and Marlon Pepito Jr. stayed for hours at the shrine dedicated to the victims of former president Rodrigo Duterte’s bloody drug war, with candles lit in memory of their murdered kin.

Duterte and his lawyers have said his arrest in March 2025 over his war on drugs in the Philippines was unlawful. Read more ...

The House adopted the report of its so-called quad comm—or the four-committee body that investigated, among others, complaints of police abuse, unlawful orders and a “reward system” behind the killing ...

Khan disqualified due to conflict of interest in Duterte case Duterte's defence argued Khan's past role compromised impartiality Deputy prosecutor Niang handling Duterte case with Khan on leave Khan ...

Judges at the International Criminal Court have rejected a challenge to jurisdiction in the case involving former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte ...

Marcos Jr. faces a defining choice. He can stand aside and let the ICC process unfold abroad, or he can step forward and try to shape it through cooperation — if the Supreme Court allows him to. The ...

The administration calls drug traffickers “enemy combatants,” a law of war label intended to justify killing them. Under international humanitarian law, a state’s military forces have the “combatant’s ...

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday that his administration plans to brief the U.S. Congress on operations against ...

Trump’s assertion that the United States is engaged in an “armed conflict” with drug cartels is based on the same legal authority used by the Bush administration when it declared a war on terror after ...

FOR TWO decades Roosevelt Roads, a sprawling American naval base in Puerto Rico, stood abandoned. Now the roar of fighter jets and whirring of helicopters have returned to fill the humid air. Over the ...