ABU SAYYAF CAPTIVE BEHEADED IN PHILIPPINES, SAYS ARMY

The Philippine army says Abu Sayyaf fighters have beheaded one of four Filipino fishermen they took captive in December... READ MORE›

MILITANT COMMANDER KILLED IN CLASH WITH SOLDIERS IN PHILIPPINES RESORT

It is the Abu Sayyaf's first known attempt to carry out ransom kidnappings deep in the heartland of the central Philippines... READ MORE›

AT LEAST 8 DEAD IN CLASH BETWEEN PHILIPPINE TROOPS, SUSPECTED ABU SAYYAF MILITANTS

The United States and the Philippines have separately blacklisted the Abu Sayyaf as a terrorist organization for bombings, kidnappings for ransom and beheadings... READ MORE›

PHILIPPINES CONDEMNS 'BARBARIC' KILLING OF GERMAN HOSTAGE

Jurgen kantner among 26 hostages held by militant group abu sayyaf... READ MORE›

FILIPINO TERRORISTS BEHEAD GERMAN HOSTAGE RELEASE VIDEO

He added that the Philippines is seeking foreign assistance to locate the remaining hostages... READ MORE›

PHILIPPINE MILITANT GROUP POSTS VIDEO CLAIMING TO SHOW BEHEADING GERMAN HOSTAGE

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›

PHILIPPINES SECRET DEATH SQUADS: OFFICER CLAIMS POLICE TEAMS BEHIND WAVE OF KILLINGS

In his Manila brothel the police officer admits that he too contemplates that very point... READ MORE›

PHILIPPINES' DUTERTE CALLED FOR A 'SEPARATION' FROM U.S. HIS TRADE MINISTER IS NOW BACKTRACKING.

On Thursday night in Beijing, President Rodrigo Duterte called for a military and economic separation from the United States... READ MORE›

WE KILLED FOR DUTERTE, FED BODY TO CROCODILE

1 of 10 Full Screen Autoplay Close Skip Ad x Who is Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte?... READ MORE›

PHILIPPINE PRESIDENT DUTERTE TELLS OBAMA TO 'GO TO HELL'

President Rodrigo Duterte gives a fist-bump gesture during his visit to the Philippine army's Camp Mateo in Rizal province east of Manila on Aug. 25... READ MORE›

ABU SAYYAF FREES NORWEGIAN HOSTAGE KJARTAN SEKKINGSTAD

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 SAYYAF FREES THREE INDONESIAN HOSTAGES

Abu Ramie, a spokesman for Abu Sayyaf, said the group received a 638,000 ransom for Sekkingstad's release... READ MORE›

BEIJING'S CLAIMS TO SOUTH CHINA SEA REJECTED BY INTERNATIONAL TRIBUNAL

The islands in the South China Sea have been Chinese territories since ancient times, he said, according to state media... READ MORE›

FILIPINO FIREBRAND RODRIGO DUTERTE JOKES ABOUT PENIS, LASHES AUSTRALIA AGAIN

Mr Duterte told the business forum he would double the salaries of security forces who will be ordered to destroy criminals... READ MORE›

DAVAO BOMBING: PHILIPPINE PRESIDENT RODRIGO DUTERTE DECLARES 'STATE OF LAWLESSNESS'

Soon after becoming president Mr Duterte launched peace talks with communists, who last week agreed to an indefinite ceasefire... READ MORE›

PHILIPPINES' RODRIGO DUTERTE POSES A MAJOR AND UNPREDICTABLE CHALLENGE TO THE U.S.

U.S. officials are quite concerned, said Jose L. Cuisia, the Philippines' former ambassador to the United States... READ MORE›

ABU SAYYAF GROUP BEHEADS CANADIAN HOSTAGE

The Abu Sayyaf group, the military source said... READ MORE›

25, about 390 elite antiterrorism police officers descended on Mamasapano, a tiny remote village on the southern island of Mindanao... READ MORE›

DUTERTE THREATENS MARTIAL LAW IF 'DRUG WAR' IS BLOCKED

A visibly angry Duterte said in a speech on Tuesday, before military troops in the southern island of Mindanao... READ MORE›

DUTERTE DECLARES 'STATE OF LAWLESSNESS' AFTER DEADLY PHILIPPINE BLAST

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 BEHEADED BY ISLAMIST MILITANTS IN PHILIPPINES

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›

US AND PHILIPPINES UNITED BY CHINA RAMP UP ALLIANCE

According to the Philippine Constitution, the United States cannot conduct military operations there but can support the Philippine forces with intelligence and training... READ MORE›

PHILIPPINES ELECTION: RODRIGO DUTERTE IN QUOTES

The frontrunner in the Philippines election, Rodrigo Duterte, is known for saying things that many would consider unsayable... READ MORE›

18 SOLDIERS KILLED BY ABU SAYYAF IN THE PHILIPPINES

Abu Sayyaf was founded in 1991 in Basilan, about 880km south of the capital, Manila... READ MORE›

'ABU SAYYAF' ATTACKS S KOREAN SHIP

They identified themselves as Abu Sayyaf Group members ...... READ MORE›

IS PHILIPPINE LEADER RODRIGO DUTERTE CHARTING A COURSE AWAY FROM US?

Mr Duterte has estimated that 3.7 million of 101 million Filipinos have been using illegal drugs, one of the highest rates of drug use in Asia... READ MORE›

ON CLIMATE CHANGE NOT A SCIENTIST NOT ENOUGH FOR SOME U.S. REPUBLICANS

Philippine military officials said in February 2012 that an early morning airstrike on Jolo Island had killed Mr... READ MORE›

NORWEGIAN HOSTAGE FREED IN PHILIPPINES BY ABU SAYYAF

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›

PHILIPPINES CONFIRMS KILLING OF CANADIAN HOSTAGE

In March, Abu Sayyaf abducted 10 sailors from Indonesia, and in April the group seized four sailors from Malaysia... READ MORE›

ISLAMIST MILITANTS BEHEAD CANADIAN MAN IN SOUTHERN PHILIPPINES

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›

TERROR GROUPS FORM ISLAMIC STATE POWERHOUSE IN THE PHILIPPINES

Four Islamic terrorist groups in the southern Philippines have merged to form a satellite extension of Islamic State, according to a video posted online... READ MORE›

TRUMP'S OUTRAGEOUS 'PIG BLOOD' COMMENTS ARE A REMINDER OF AN OFTEN FORGOTTEN HISTORY

In the southern island of Mindanao, Pershing defeated a local Moro rebellion by 1913... READ MORE›

PETER GERARD SCULLY MADE PHILIPPINES CHILDREN DIG OWN GRAVE

Philippines police have launched a manhunt for four foreign accomplices who had allegedly been working in Scully's cyber-sex business, which mainly catered to clients in Europe... READ MORE›

PHILIPPINE OFFICIALS CONFIRM CANADIAN HOSTAGE WAS BEHEADED

The United States and the Philippines have both listed the Abu Sayyaf as a terrorist organization for kidnappings, beheadings and bombings... READ MORE›

CASH, NOT CALIPHATE, DRIVES KIDNAPPERS IN PHILIPPINES

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›

PETER GERARD SCULLY MADE PHILIPPINES CHILDREN DIG OWN GRAVE

Philippines police have launched a manhunt for four foreign accomplices who had allegedly been working in Scully's cyber-sex business, which mainly catered to clients in Europe... READ MORE›