Philippine troops have killed an Abu Sayyaf commander wanted for kidnapping and attacks on foreign ships, a military official said on Sunday... READ MORE›
READ MORE Inside Abu Sayyaf Blood, drugs and conspiracies Philippine official Jesus Dureza said Sekkingstad was handed over to the rebel group Moro National Liberation Front... READ MORE›
Abu Ramie, a spokesman for Abu Sayyaf, said the group received a 638,000 ransom for Sekkingstad's release... READ MORE›
Leader's body identified by other captured abu sayyaf militants, says philippine military chief... READ MORE›
The Philippine army says Abu Sayyaf fighters have beheaded one of four Filipino fishermen they took captive in December... READ MORE›
Jurgen kantner among 26 hostages held by militant group abu sayyaf... READ MORE›
The Abu Sayyaf group, the military source said... READ MORE›
Video provided by AFP Newslook Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte C arrives at the site of an explosion at a market in Davao City... READ MORE›
Canadian hostage John Ridsdel, a former mining executive, has been killed by Abu Sayyaf militants in the Philippines, a Canadian government official has confirmed... READ MORE›
Abu Sayyaf was founded in 1991 in Basilan, about 880km south of the capital, Manila... READ MORE›
They identified themselves as Abu Sayyaf Group members ...... READ MORE›
Philippine military officials said in February 2012 that an early morning airstrike on Jolo Island had killed Mr... READ MORE›
A Norwegian man held hostage by Philippine militant group Abu Sayyaf is released after being held more than a year, CNN Philippines and state-run media report... READ MORE›
In March, Abu Sayyaf abducted 10 sailors from Indonesia, and in April the group seized four sailors from Malaysia... READ MORE›
In November, Abu Sayyaf militants decapitated a Malaysian hostage on the same day that the Malaysian prime minister arrived in Manila for a summit... READ MORE›
The remains of a key Abu Sayyaf commander Moammar Askali have been recovered and identified in the scene of a battle on Bohol island... READ MORE›
The United States and the Philippines have both listed the Abu Sayyaf as a terrorist organization for kidnappings, beheadings and bombings... READ MORE›
In November 2015, Abu Sayyaf militants decapitated a Malaysian hostage on the same day that the Malaysian prime minister arrived in Manila for a summit... READ MORE›
Roy Trinidad, a former commander in the Philippines Special Forces who spent years going after Abu Sayyaf in the jungles of the south... READ MORE›
But Padilla said there was still no evidence that Islamic State had ties with the Abu Sayyaf... READ MORE›
Abu Sayyaf's leadership, which was said to have ties with al-Qaeda, aimed to forge its own Islamic state... READ MORE›
Abu Sayyaf is a fragmented but violent militant group with its roots in the Islamist separatist insurgency in the southern Philippines... READ MORE›
Mr. Joko said in his statement that his government was working to release four other Indonesian sailors held in the Philippines... READ MORE›
Abu Sayyaf fighters killed in clashes in the Philppines... READ MORE›
Several killed in explosion in Davao, home town of President Rodrigo Duterte... READ MORE›
Philippine troops have been carrying out an offensive that has killed dozens of militants in Sulu... READ MORE›
Marites Flor tearfully recalled when her fiance Robert Hall and, earlier, John Ridsdel were led away to a jungle clearing and murdered by ransom-seeking militants... READ MORE›
Abu Sayyaf is also believed to be holding a Dutch bird-watcher kidnapped in 2012, while it recently released a retired Italian priest after six months in captivity... READ MORE›
Duterte has also signaled that he wants exiled communist leaders to return to the Philippines and play key roles in peace talks with their militants... READ MORE›
The Abu Sayyaf was founded in 1991 in Basilan, about 880 kilometres south of Manila... READ MORE›
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