Violence, corruption charges, and prominent personalities color voting in Filipino elections. The results could determine the staying power of President Arroyo.

A state of emergency and arrests of senior military officers is testing The Philippines' fragile democracy, which marked a somber and tense 20th anniversary over the weekend.

Filipino president Benigno S. Aquino III discusses the steps to eliminate political corruption in the Philippines taken by his government, as well as its rapidly growing economy.

A profile of terrorism in the Philippines.

A profile of the terrorist organization based in the southern Philippines.

In this report Amnesty International documents an increased number of killings of political activists in the Philippines, predominately those associated with leftist or left-orientated groups. The attacks, mostly carried out by unidentified men who shoot the victims before escaping on motorcycles, have very rarely led to the arrest, prosecution and punishment of those responsible. Amnesty International believes that the killings constitute a pattern and that a continuing failure to deliver justice to the victims represents a failure by the Government of the Philippines to fulfil its obligation to protect the right to life of every individual in its jurisdiction.

This study from the East-West Center analyzes the ongoing conflicts in southern Thailand and southern Philippines between indigenous Muslim minorities and their respective central governments.

Max Boot argues that the United States is sending a signal of weakness over the Scarborough Shoal.

Max Boot and Richard Bennet look at the success of "low-intensity" U.S. counterinsurgency efforts in the Philippines.

David G. Bradley, the Chairman of Atlantic Media Company, presides over a conversation with Benigno S. Aquino III, President of the Republic of the Philippines.

Filipino president Benigno S. Aquino III discusses the steps to eliminate political corruption in the Philippines taken by his government, as well as its rapidly growing economy.