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.

Boat transporting fuel seized in southern Philippines

ZAMBOANGA CITY – The Philippine Navy on Saturday said it seized a vessel carrying 447 drums of smuggled fuel off Indanan town in the southern province of Sulu.

13 Sayyafs surrender in Sulu

SULU - The Philippine military on Saturday said 13 Abu Sayyaf terrorists had surrendered in the southern province of Sulu with officials calling on other pro-ISIS gunmen to return to the fold of the law and live peacefully with their families.

Dozens fall to food poisoning in Sulu

SULU - Dozens of villagers in the southern province of Sulu were rushed to hospital on suspicion of food poisoning after they consumed snacks given by soldiers, radio reports said.

3 soldiers wounded in Sayyaf clash

ZAMBOANGA CITY – Three soldiers were wounded in a clash with Abu Sayyaf militants in a remote village in Sulu’s Indanan town in southern Philippines, officials announced late Sunday.

Troops disarm Sayyaf bomb

ZAMBOANGA CITY – Patrolling soldiers recovered an Abu Sayyaf improvised explosive on a village in Sulu’s Indanan town in southern Philippines, officials said, adding it was the fifth homemade bomb discovered in the province since early this year.

Cop wounded in Sulu ambush

ZAMBOANGA CITY – One policeman was wounded in an ambush Friday evening in the southern Philippine province of Sulu, police said.

Police hunt 2 men who escaped sting ops

ZAMBOANGA CITY – Police are hunting two alleged drug suspects who escaped during a sting operation that captured their cohort in the southern Philippine province of Sulu.

6 Sayyafs yield in Sulu

SULU - The Philippine military on Friday announced the surrender of six Abu Sayyaf terrorists in the southern province of Sulu where security forces are hunting down members of the pro-ISIS group.

9 terrorists yield in Sulu

SULU – The Philippine military announced Wednesday afternoon the surrender of 9 Abu Sayyaf terrorists in the southern province of Sulu.

10 Sayyaf terrorists yield in Sulu

SULU – The Philippine military said 10 Abu Sayyaf terrorists surrendered in the southern province of Sulu where the pro-ISIS group had brutally killed tens of dozens of people and kidnapped Filipinos and foreigners in the past decades.

Philippines stops planned terror attacks, 9 women arrested

ZAMBOANGA CITY – Philippine authorities may have stopped a planned suicide attacks following the arrest of nine women who are related to notorious Abu Sayyaf terrorist leaders in the southern province of Sulu, officials said Tuesday.

Sulu’s Camp Bud Datu gets a face lift

SULU – Vice Governor Toto Tan inaugurated Monday the newly-constructed facilities at Camp Bud Datu at the headquarters of the Philippine Army’s 1102nd Infantry Brigade in Indanan town.

Troops recover Sayyaf bomb in Sulu

ZAMBOANGA CITY – Security forces recovered an improvised explosive planted by the pro-ISIS group Abu Sayyaf in the southern province of Sulu, officials said Saturday.

Navy rescues 5 fishermen from capsized boat off Sulu

SULU - The Philippine Navy said it rescued Sunday 5 people from a capsized fishing boat off the southern province of Sulu, but one passenger is still missing and the search is continuing despite the bad weather.

Sayyaf atrocities condemned

MUSLIM VILLAGERS in the southern province of Sulu have condemned the murder of a farmer who was attacked by Abu Sayyaf militants in Patikul town where residents declared the pro-ISIS group as “persona non grata”.

Scout Rangers capture Sayyaf camp

SULU - The Philippine Army seized an Abu Sayyaf encampment on Tuesday as troops continue to hunt down members of the terrorist group, who engineered last month’s twin suicide bombings in Sulu province, officials said.

Sulu to build additional quarantine center

SULU – In an effort to contain or prevent the further spread of the deadly coronavirus disease, Governor Sakur Tan said the provincial government will build an additional isolation and quarantine facilities in the town of Indanan.

Tausug (MAKUSUG Class) soldiers, pride of Sulu

SULU – The Philippine Army thanked Governor Sakur Tan for his support in various, including its community and humanitarian programs in the southern province of Sulu where it recently graduated over 230 new soldiers.

Sulu reports first Covid-19 case

SULU – A 63-year old man who died in hospital in Sulu province two weeks ago was positive for the novel coronavirus (Covid-19) disease after test results came out just Friday.