Wednesday, April 7, 2010 as of 11:14 AM ET
Abu Sayyaf (; , ASG, ) also known as al-Harakat al-Islamiyya is one of several military Islamist separatist groups based in and around the southern Philippines, in Bangsamoro (Jolo and Basilan) where for almost 30 years various Muslim groups have been engaged in an insurgency for an independent province in the country.
Read More at Wikipedia ›Al-Qaida-linked militants in the Philippines have staged more attacks in the last four years despite many battlefield setbacks, a military report said Thursday, blaming a failure of authorities to isolate the terrorists from their supporters.
The Abu Sayyaf, which has long been blacklisted by Washington as a terrorist organization, launched 74 attacks last year, 19 percent more than in 2010.The report, which assesses the first year of the government's new counterinsurgency program, said poverty and the large number of unlicensed firearms in the southern provinces of Sulu and Basilan, where the Abu Sayyaf has jungle strongholds, have allowed the militants to survive and continue to sow terror.Attacks by the Abu Sayyaf, which currently has 381 armed fighters, have steadily rose since 2007, when it mounted 31 assaults, despite the capture and killing of many Abu Sayyaf commanders and fighters in U.S.-backed military offensives, the military said.Last year's attacks included 17 kidnappings ...MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Al Qaeda-linked militants beheaded three loggers in the Philippines in apparent retaliation for government offensives in the country's sou...
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine troops clashed with Abu Sayyaf gunmen in a southern coastal village Sunday and killed a long-wanted militant who helped in the ...
MANILA, Philippines -- The Philippine government and Muslim rebels agreed Thursday to continue peace talks despite recent clashes that killed 19 soldiers in a southe...
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The Philippine government has asked a court to outlaw the Abu Sayyaf as a terrorist group and blacklist more than 200 of its Islamic fight...
Two U.S. Navy construction troops and a Philippines marine were killed Tuesday in a roadside blast in the southern Philippines that officials said was likely an atta...
Suspected Al Qaeda-linked militants raided a village in the southern Philippines early Saturday, killing 11 people in the country's worst militant attack on civilian...
President Benigno Aquino III warned on Sunday of a possible terrorist attack, including bombings, during an annual Roman Catholic procession in Manila that draws mil...
Police in the Philippines say they have captured a militant with an al-Qaida-linked movement in an operation at a Manila shopping center.They say they police intelli...
The largest Muslim rebel group in the Philippines urged the government Wednesday to speed up peace talks, but remained vague about its plans to handle a renegade com...
A suspected militant believed to be a liaison between Muslim rebels and a Southeast Asian terrorist network was arrested in the restive southern Philippines, officia...
MANILA, Philippines — Philippine police commandos killed an Abu Sayyaf commander linked to last year's kidnapping of Red Cross workers and gunned down two other mili...
ZAMBOANGA, Philippines (AP) — A Philippine governor who led a military campaign against Muslim militants said Friday he believed he was the target of a bombing at a ...
A Malaysian wildlife trader held captive by suspected Abu Sayyaf militants for a year in the southern Philippines says he saw group members as young as 15 skilled in...
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Muslim militants killed two villagers after fatally shooting three hostages, apparently to avenge the deaths of comrades in a government a...
Philippine bomber planes and troops assaulted a mountain stronghold of the Al Qaeda-linked Abu Sayyaf group in the south Sunday in a new offensive targeting a key Ma...
Suspected Abu Sayyaf militants kidnapped three crew members of a fishing boat in the southern Philippines and called their company to demand ransom, in the latest re...
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — About 30 hooded attackers, believed to be Abu Sayyaf militants, shot and hacked horrified victims as they ran for their lives in the south...
Army troops captured a jungle encampment of al-Qaida-linked Abu Sayyaf gunmen and killed five militants in a gunbattle that also left two soldiers dead in the southe...
An Australian resident of a southern Philippine town was kidnapped late Monday in the restive region notorious for abductions, triggering a massive military search, ...
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