Tag: Moro conflict

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

Philippine troops have seized 59 suspected militants trying to reinforce Islamist gunmen holed up in the southern city of Marawai ...

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 ...

A Philippine military jet accidentally killed two soldiers and injured 11 others as troops fought to retake a southern city ...

Children and hostages are being forced to fight alongside pro-Islamic State gunmen waging a seven-week battle for a Philippine city, ...

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 ...

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

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

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

Islamist militants occupying parts of a southern Philippine city used a water route to bring in ammunition and evacuate wounded ...

A Roman Catholic priest abducted by Islamist militants who seized parts of a southern Philippine city has been seen alive, ...

An eight-hour ceasefire in a Philippine city allowing residents to celebrate the end of Ramadan came to an abrupt end ...

The Philippine armed forces declared an eight-hour ceasefire Sunday in its ongoing offensive against Islamist militants occupying parts of the ...

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

A dusty teddy bear strewn on the floor, family photos on a wall and dried underwear on a clothesline are ...

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