The Philippines’ fight for independence was a long struggle stretching over almost 50 years and ending in 1946 when the U.S. commonwealth officially became its own country. This year, March 24 marks ...

A Filipino medical assistant bandages the injured arm of a woman in a PCAU clinic at San Rogue on Leyte Island, January 1945. Photo courtesy David Smollar America’s World War II return to the ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. In the Philippines — where Spanish and later ...

The Fourth of July has been celebrated as Independence Day in the Philippines since the U.S. in 1946 chose that date to give the islands their freedom. But last week the Philippines changed its ...

In the Philippines — where Spanish and later U.S. colonial rule persisted for nearly four centuries — June 12 is the real Independence Day. That date in 1898 was the pivotal moment when the island ...

In the Philippines, where colonial rule under Spain and later the United States endured for nearly four centuries, June 12 is the real Independence Day. In the Philippines — where Spanish and later ...