Sayyaf captor of mayor’s son captured in Zamboanga

ZAMBOANGA CITY – Security forces captured an Abu Sayyaf terrorist linked to the 2018 random kidnapping of a municipal mayor’s town in southern Philippines.

8 dead in Basilan clashes

ISABELA CITY – At least three army soldiers and five members of the former rebel group Moro Islamic Liberation Front were killed in fierce clashes that erupted in the southern Philippine province of Basilan, security officials said Thursday. 

Thousands flee as soldiers, MILF members clash in Basilan

ZAMBOANGA CITY – Thousands of civilians have fled their homes following fierce clashes between security forces and members of the former rebel group Moro Islamic Liberation Front in the southern Philippine province of Basilan.

Troops recover ammo, gun parts in Basilan province

BASILAN - Government troops pursuing Abu Sayyaf terrorists in the troubled province of Basilan have recovered ammunition for machine gun, gun parts and assorted bandoliers, including a uniform of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front.

Sayyafs raid army post in Basilan, kills 3

ZAMBOANGA CITY – Abu Sayyaf terrorists raided an army post and killed at least three soldiers in a daring attack Thursday in the town of Al-Barka in the restive Muslim province of Basilan in southern Philippines, reports said.

Military foils Sayyaf bomb plot in Basilan province

BASILAN – The Philippine military announced Thursday afternoon the recovery of four Abu Sayyaf improvised explosives and rifle grenades and claimed to have foiled a bomb plot in the southern province of Basilan where security forces are hunting down members of the pro-ISIS group.

Gunmen strafe cargo truck, kills 1 in Basilan

ZAMBOANGA CITY – Unidentified gunmen strafed a truck loaded with lumber and killed its driver while four others managed to flee from the attack in the troubled province of Basilan in southern Philippines.

Police said the attack occurred late Wednesday afternoon in Macalang village in Al-Barka town and killed the 45-year old driver Roel Sanson. His companions fled from the truck on the first volley of gunfire and ran until they reached an army detachment and sought help.

The victim and his group were engaged in lumber trading, according to the police, but the motive of the attack remains unknown. No individual or group claimed responsibility for the ambush which happened despite the expanded martial law in the restive region due to threats of rebellion and terrorism.

Just recently, a logger was also killed by rebels after he failed to recite Muslim prayers in Maluso town also in Basilan. (Mindanao Examiner)

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