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

The Philippine Congress on Saturday voted to extend President Rodrigo Duterte's declaration of martial law in the south until the ...

Singapore said Wednesday it has offered surveillance drones and urban warfare training to Philippine troops battling Islamist fighters, to prevent ...

A gun-toting Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte made a surprise visit Friday to a military camp close to a city where ...

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

Islamist gunmen led by one of the world's most wanted terrorists still hold about 1,500 buildings in a southern Philippine ...

Islamist militants occupying a southern Philippine city have forced nearly 400,000 people in the wider area to flee their homes, ...

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

Australian military spy planes will start flying missions over the southern Philippines to help in the fight against Islamic militants ...

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte apologised Tuesday for a military offensive that has left the nation's main Muslim city in ruins, ...

One local politician has been arrested and others are wanted for supporting Islamist militants who have taken over parts of ...

With bomb-proof tunnels, anti-tank weapons hidden in mosques, human shields and a "mastery" of the terrain, Islamist militants holed up ...

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday ordered the military to "crush" Islamist militants still occupying parts of a southern city, ...

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

Security forces traded heavy gunfire with Islamist militants inside a southern Philippine city Monday, as fears grew for up to ...

ISIS-linked terrorists have murdered 19 civilians in the Philippines including a woman and a child. This week 85 people have ...

Two thousand fearful civilians were trapped on Sunday inside a southern Philippine city where troops are battling Islamist militants, authorities ...

Islamist militants locked in street-to-street battles with security forces in a southern Philippine city have killed 19 civilians, the military ...

Militants fighting under the black flag of the Islamic State group have turned a southern city into a battleground, and ...

Foreigners are among Islamist gunmen battling security forces in a southern Philippine city, the government said Friday as soldiers tore ...