Tag: Abu Sayyaf

Islamist militants in the Philippines have beheaded seven local loggers they kidnapped last week in their stronghold in the strife-torn ...

Western governments are warning their citizens against travelling to nearly all of the southern third of the Philippines, citing the ...

Legislators in the Philippines have voted overwhelmingly to extend martial law to deal with an Islamist insurgency in the restive ...

A Vietnamese sailor being held hostage by Islamist gunmen in the southern Philippines was killed during a gunbattle between the ...

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has threatened to eat alive the Islamist militants behind the abduction and beheadings of two Vietnamese ...

Two Vietnamese men have been beheaded by Philippine Islamist group Abu Sayyaf, the country’s military said. Their bodies were found ...

Islamist militants have beheaded two Vietnamese sailors held hostage for eight months in the southern Philippines, the military said on ...

US and Philippine warships on Saturday conducted a joint patrol of southern waters known as a hunting ground for local ...

One of America's most wanted terrorists may have escaped a five-week battle with Islamist militants in a southern Philippine city, ...

Islamic militants launched a day-long assault on a southern Philippine village Wednesday during which they held 31 people hostage inside ...

Islamic militants occupied a primary school and took hostages in a southern Philippine village on Wednesday, a few hours drive ...

Inside the "Heroes' Ward" at a hospital in the Philippine capital, wounded soldiers read the Bible and recount horror stories ...

Philippine troops have rescued a Vietnamese sailor held hostage for seven months by Islamist militants in the country's south, the ...

US forces are providing the Philippines with technical assistance to end a siege of the southern town of Marawi by ...

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte offered large bounties Monday for the leaders of Islamist fighters holding parts of a southern city ...

There are about 1,200 Islamic State (IS) group operatives in the Philippines, including foreigners of whom 40 are from Indonesia, ...

Philippine authorities said Sunday they were trying to negotiate a ceasefire in a war-torn southern city to rescue up to ...

Loud explosions rang out in the now mostly deserted city of Marawai on Friday as Philippine fighter jets launched fresh ...

Philippine airstrikes aimed at Islamist militants who are holding hostages as human shields killed 11 soldiers, authorities said Thursday, as ...

Philippine airstrikes aimed at Islamist militants who are holding hostages as human shields in a southern city killed 11 soldiers, ...