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.

Scout Ranger killed, another wounded in Basilan ambush

ZAMBOANGA CITY – Gunmen killed a member of the Philippine Army’s Scout Ranger regiment and wounded another in an ambush Tuesday in the restive Muslim province of Basilan.

Sayyaf ‘spy’ kills soldier, wounds 2 others in Basilan

ZAMBOANGA CITY – An Abu Sayyaf terrorist allegedly working for the military was slain after he killed a government soldier and two civilians at an army post in Sumisip town in the restive Muslim province of Basilan.

4 killed in Basilan attacks

ZAMBOANGA CITY – Four people were killed and three others wounded in separate gun attacks in the restive Muslim province of Basilan in southern Philippines.

Four soldiers wounded, gunmen killed in Sayyaf clashes

ZAMBOANGA CITY – Four soldiers were wounded and a still unknown number of gunmen were killed in fierce clashes with Abu Sayyaf militants in the southern island-province of Basilan, about 29 nautical miles south of here.

Sayyaf leader wanted by U.S. killed in Southern Philippines

ZAMBOANGA CITY – Filipino soldiers shot dead a senior Abu Sayyaf terrorist leader wanted by the United States for the July 2011 kidnapping of an American woman and her son in the southern Philippine port city of Zamboanga. 

Troops kill Sayyaf supporter, recover IED in Basilan

SECURITY FORCES recovered an improvised explosive after killing an Abu Sayyaf supporter on Monday in the southern Philippine province of Basilan, officials said.

Muslim woman killed in Basilan blast

A MUSLIM woman was killed in a bomb explosion after stepping a tripwire on a village in Sumisip town in the southern Philippine province of Basilan where pro-ISIS Abu Sayyaf militants are actively operating.

Sumisip village chieftain shot dead in Isabela City

BASILAN – A lone gunman shot dead a village chieftain of Basilan’s Sumisip town in a daring broad daylight attack Monday outside a fast food restaurant in downtown Isabela City.

Sayyafs bomb Basilan bridge

ZAMBOANGA CITY – Abu Sayyaf terrorists bombed a bridge at dawn Wednesday in Basilan province, one of the major strongholds of the pro-ISIS group in the volatile Muslim autonomous region in southern Philippines.

Sayyafs kill 2 brothers in Basilan

ZAMBOANGA CITY – Members of the pro-ISIS group Abu Sayyaf on Monday killed 2 Muslim brothers and allegedly beheaded one of them who was a pro-government militia in the southern Philippine province of Basilan, reports said.

MILF forces occupy village, attack soldiers in Basilan

ZAMBOANGA CITY – Moro Islamic Liberation Front forces attacked and wounded 2 soldiers in the southern Philippine province of Basilan, officials said.

7 pro-ISIS fighters killed, Sayyaf commander captured in South

Government soldiers killed an Abu Sayyaf fighter and 6 other pro-ISIS fighters, including their sub-leader, in separate clashes Friday in the southern Philippines, officials said.

Basilan village dedicates plaza to slain Catholic missionary priest

VILLAGERS IN Basilan province have unveiled a garden and a plaza dedicated to a Catholic missionary priest who was slain by the Abu Sayyaf 20 years ago.

3 killed in Sayyaf ambush in Basilan province

ZAMBOANGA CITY – Abu Sayyaf militants ambushed an army soldier and two government militias in Basilan, one of 5 provinces under the restive Muslim autonomous region in southern Philippines, officials said Thursday.

Officials did not release the names of the casualties, but said the trio was travelling on two motorcycles in the village of Upper Benembengan in Sumisip town when gunmen attacked them.

The Wednesday ambush occurred while the whole of southern Philippines is under an extended martial rule due to threats of terrorism. The attack occurred at the same time the United States warned its citizens not to travel to the restive region because of persistent threats of terrorism.

The military previously claimed that Basilan is now peaceful following the surrender of dozens of militants over the last two years, but despite the rhetoric, sporadic attacks against security forces and civilians still continue.

Basilan, about 29 nautical south of Zamboanga City, is a major stronghold of Abu Sayyaf being the place where the militant group is founded by its chieftain and Islamic preacher Ustadz Abubakar Abdurajak Janjalani in the 1990s.

Janjalani was eventually killed by a policeman in a firefight on December 1998, but the group continued its terror in the South, embracing the violent campaigns of ISIS in an effort to establish a caliphate on Mindanao. (The Zamboanga Post)

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