PBBM deplores 'horrific' Russia attack, condoles with victims

PRESIDENT FERDINAND R. Marcos Jr. on Saturday joined other world leaders in condemning the attack on a concert hall in Russia that killed at least 115 people as of the 7:30 p.m. update.

ISIS woman captured in the Philippines

ZAMBOANGA CITY - Security forces captured Thursday a Filipino woman wanted by the United States and the United Nations for her links to the Islamic State (IS) also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), and its local counterpart, the Dawlah Islamiya or ISIS-Philippines in the southern province of Sulu, officials said.

Tight security in Mindanao

MARAWI CITY – Philippine authorities have tightened security in the restive region of Mindanao following a recent bombing at a Catholic mass inside the university stadium in the Muslim city of Marawi in the province of Lanao del Sur that killed at least four people and injured dozens more.

ISEAP owns up attack on Filipino troops

ZAMBOANGA CITY – The Islamic State East Asia Province (ISEAP) has claimed wounding or killing seven government soldiers in a clash in the southern Philippines where security forces are battling the extremist group Dawlah Islamiya.

Extremists attack police detachment in South, 3 wounded

COTABATO CITY – Police ordered its forces on high alert on Tuesday after local ISIS fighters attacked a detachment in the restive Muslim province of Maguindanao del Sur and wounded three security personnel.

BIFF leader is new IS emir in Southeast Asia: Report

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MILF mum on reports

 'Local ISIS fighters attack MILF position in Mindanao'

COTABATO CITY - Local Muslim militants allied with the Islamic State launched simultaneous attacks anew against the former rebel group Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) in the restive southern Filipino province of Maguindanao.

Soldier killed, 7 others wounded in Basilan (Sensitive Content Warning)

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Egyptian, Filipino jihadists surrender in southern Philippines

ZAMBOANGA CITY – The Philippine military is holding a young Egyptian jihadist whose mother blew herself up in an attack on an army checkpoint in 2019 in the southern province of Sulu, officials said Friday.

2 terrorists killed in Basilan

BASILAN - The Philippine Army reported Wednesday the killing of two pro-ISIS fighters in a clash in the southern Muslim province of Basilan, south of here.

Philippines holds son of Indonesian suicide bombers

BASILAN - The Philippines is holding the 15-year old son of an Indonesian suicide bombers following an operation by security forces against pro-ISIS groups Dawlah Islamiya and Abu Sayyaf in the southern Muslim province of Basilan.

Jihadi groups continue to fundraise in cryptocurrency

SINCE THE Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) and Terrorism Threat Monitor (JTTM) published its seminal report The Coming Storm – Terrorists Using Cryptocurrency on August 21, 2019, the JTTM research team has continued to monitor jihadi use of cryptocurrency along with MEMRI's Cyber & Jihad Lab (CJL), which focuses on jihadi use of emerging technologies such as encryption, artificial intelligence, drones, bots, and cryptocurrency. 

5 killed, 3 wounded in fresh clashes in southern Philippines

COTABATO CITY - Government troops killed three local ISIS fighters in fierce clashes that left one soldier and a civilian dead and three more wounded in the Muslim province of Lanao del Sur in southern Philippines, police said Friday.

Jihadi groups continue to fundraise in cryptocurrency

SINCE THE Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) and Terrorism Threat Monitor (JTTM) published its seminal report The Coming Storm – Terrorists Using Cryptocurrency on August 21, 2019, the JTTM research team has continued to monitor jihadi use of cryptocurrency along with MEMRI's Cyber & Jihad Lab (CJL), which focuses on jihadi use of emerging technologies such as encryption, artificial intelligence, drones, bots, and cryptocurrency. 

Security heightened in Philippines' South due to terror threats

MAGUINDANAO – The Philippine military heightened its security in the restive region of Mindanao following fresh threats of attacks from pro-ISIS militants, blamed by authorities for the series of bombings and killings in the South. 

Army, MILF capture young ISIS fighters in South

COTABATO CITY - The Philippine military on Saturday said army troops and Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) members captured four young fighters of the local ISIS group in a rare joint operation in Lanao del Sur province in the restive Bangsamoro autonomous region, a hotbed of Muslim insurgency in the South.

Maranaos still cry for justice six years after siege

MARAWI CITY – Six years after the deadly siege of Marawi City by pro-ISIS militants, various civil society organizations are still demanding justice, human rights protection and peace towards the full realization of safe and dignified return of all displaced residents back to their homes.

IS declares war vs. MILF

MAGUINDANAO - Local ISIS fighters have declared a total war with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, which signed a peace deal with Manila in 2014, and the recent attack by the militants on the former secessionist group in the southern Philippine province of Maguindanao was not the first.

Troops clash with local IS militants in South

DAVAO CITY - Government forces killed three Muslim militants and captured seven others as they clashed at dawn Sunday in the southern Philippine province of Lanao del Sur, officials said Monday.

ISIS still a threat in Southeast Asia

THE PHILIPPINES remains an attractive site for Islamic State (IS) operations now and in the future, Nikkei Asia quoted Mimi Fabe, a professor of financial terrorism at the National Police College of the Philippines, as saying.