U.S. soldiers carted three of the Balangiga town's church bells off as war trophies during the 1899-1902 Philippine-American War. The Philippines has argued for decades that it was a historical ...

The US Ambassador may be optimistic but he is a small fry. It is not his word that will return the Balangiga bells to the Philippines nor the talks between the Philippine and US military.

Duterte wants the United States to return war trophies seized more than 100 years ago: three historic church bells that were taken from the Philippine village of Balangiga after a bloody clash ...

American occupation troops took the bells in 1901 from a Catholic church following an attack by machete-wielding Filipino villagers, who killed 48 U.S. troops in the town of Balangiga on central Samar ...

MANILA, Philippines — The three Balangiga bells have returned to the Philippines on Tuesday after being taken by American troops as war trophies in 1901. In his 2017 State of the Nation Address ...

MANILA, Philippines — The historic bells of Balangiga have returned to the Philippines, more than a century after they were taken by American soldiers as war trophies in 1901 during the ...

Up to 2,500 online petitioners want US President Barack Obama to return the bells of Balangiga in Eastern Samar, which the US took as spoils of war MANILA, Philippines – Visiting Manila for the ...

So said Senator Sherwin Gatchalian on Tuesday on the return of the historic bells of Balangiga in the Philippines after 117 years. Earlier, the U.S. C-130 plane that carried the bells landed at ...

Long before President Duterte demanded for the return of the Balangiga bells to the Philippines in his second State of the Nation Address, a Filipino filmmaker had already started work on a movie ...

One day, after the fanfare that accompanied their return to the Philippines from the United States, I hope to see the actual bells taken from the rubble of Balangiga Church as war booty during the ...

Ambassador Sung Kim (seventh from left), together with US and Philippine government officials at the arrival ceremony of the Balangiga bells on Tuesday (This piece was written on Monday ...

American occupation troops took the bells in 1901 from a Catholic church following an attack by machete-wielding Filipino villagers, who killed 48 U.S. troops in the town of Balangiga on central ...