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ZAMBOANGA CITY (Eagle News) – Sumuko sa militar ang pitong miyembro ng Abu Sayyaf Group na mga tauhan at tagasunod ng napatay na ASG Sub-leader na si Alhabsy Misaya sa Sulu. Ayon kay Joint Task Force Sulu Commander Brig. Gen. Cirilito Sobejana, kusang-loob na sumuko ang pitong ASG sa Sitio Kanjawali, Bgry. Tandu Bato, Luuk, Sulu. Nakilala ang limang sumukong Abu Sayyaf na sina: Aminula Sakili Saharijan Sakili Hayden Sahidul Sattar Sadjal Orik Samsuraji Habang ang dalawang iba […]
MANILA, Philippines (AFP) — Terrorists are planning to kidnap foreigners on a Philippine island popular with tourists, the United States embassy has warned, a month after a foiled abduction attempt by Islamic militants at another tourism hotspot. An advisory from the US embassy in Manila on Tuesday warned Americans to “carefully consider” going to Palawan, naming a World Heritage-listed underground river as one area of specific concern. “The US Embassy has received credible information that […]
INDANAN, Sulu (Eagle News) – Mismong si Western Mindanao Commander Gen. Carlito G. Galvez Jr., ang nag-abot ng 1 million pesos na reward money sa isang hindi na pinangalan impormanteng taga-Sulu. Ito ay dahil sa mga impormasyong ibinigay sa mga tropa ng marines nang maglunsad ng opensiba ang Joint Task Force Sulu laban sa notorious na Abu Sayyaf sub-leader Al Habsy Misaya na nagresulta sa pagkapatay kay Misaya sa Barangay Silangkan, Indanan, Sulu. Sa turn-over […]
(Agence France Presse) — The Armed Forces of the Philippines said Saturday it had killed a senior commander of the Abu Sayyaf behind a 2002 bombing that claimed the life of a United States Special Forces commando. Group leader Alhabsy Misaya was killed in a military operation on Friday on the gunmen’s southern island stronghold of Jolo, a military statement said. “Troops from assigned Philippine Marine units killed the Abu Sayyaf extremist commander who is […]
(Eagle News) — Foreign Affairs Spokesperson Robespierre Bolivar said that many pressing issues are to be discussed in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations Summit and related meetings on Friday and Saturday, including the South China Sea dispute, the Rohingya crisis in Myanmar, the rampant sea kidnappings, and the Abu Sayyaf bandits. These are among the issues that were tackled during the meeting on Thursday, including the work plan for 2017 as well as their […]
ZAMBOANGA CITY, Philippines (Eagle News) – Nanawagan si Lt. Gen. Carlito G. Galvez, Commander ng Armed Forces of the Philippines Western Mindanao Command (AFP-WesMinCom) sa mga taga-Sulu na makipagtulungan sa militar. Ituro na rin aniya ang lugar na pinagtaguan ng mga taong responsable sa pagpugot kay Sgt. Anni Siraji noong nakaraang linggo. Sinabi pa ni Galvez na mabibigyan lamang ng hustisya ang pamilya Siraji kung mapanagot ang mga taong walang awang pumaslang sa isa sa kanilang tauhan […]
QUEZON City, Philippines (Eagle News) — Malacañang has ordered the Philippine National Police to double its vigilance and be alert against the Abu Sayyaf after the relationship between a police official and an Abu Sayyaf member came out in the open. Presidential Spokesperson Ernesto Abella said the relationship between Police Superintendent Cristina Nobleza with Abu Sayyaf bomb expert Renierlo Dongon constituted a national security nightmare. “The arrest of PSupt. Maria Cristina Brugada Nobleza, who was assigned at […]
(Eagle News Service) — The Armed Forces of the Philippines announced on Tuesday that the Abu Sayyaf group that figured in a recent clash with government troops in Inabanga, Bohol was now almost decimated. “The two or three remaining individuals, one whom we believe to have expired because of exposure to elements and hunger, are down to two, who are fighting for survival,” Brig. Gen. Restituto Padilla, AFP spokesperson, said. According to Padilla, as such, the […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte ordered Philippine National Police (PNP) chief Director General Ronald dela Rosa to immediately detain the lady police officer who was earlier arrested in Bohol, and turned out to be a “lover” of an Abu Sayyaf member. “I just received instruction from the President and he ordered me to arrest and incarcerate right away Supt. Cristina Nobleza,” Dela Rosa said in a press briefing at around 2 p.m. Monday, April […]
(Eagle News) — The Abu Sayyaf has beheaded a kidnapped soldier, a fellow Tausug, who had been helping the government in convincing the community in Sulu not to give support to the terrorist group, a Philippine army official confirmed on Sunday, April 23. Hours after government troops killed three more members of the Islamic State-linked group in a clash elsewhere, the head of Sergeant Anni Siraji of the Army’s 32nd Infantry Battalion was found 50 […]
(Agence France Presse) — Four gunmen have been killed in Bohol as President Rodrigo Duterte ordered the military on Sunday to kill remnants of the Abu Sayyaf behind a foiled mass kidnapping attempt there. Authorities said the dead suspects and three others on the run were stragglers from a boatload of the gunmen who sailed to the central island of Bohol this month as part of a plot to kidnap tourists. The raid had signalled […]
(PNA) — Three more members of the Abu Sayyaf Group, who made the botched incursion last April 11, were killed during a firefight with government security forces in the hinterlands of Clarin, Bohol Saturday. Bohol Provincial Police Office Chief Supt. Felipe Natividad confirmed that among those killed was native, Joselito Melloria, the alleged contact and guide of the bandits in the April 10 landing in Inabanga town. Melloria reportedly married a Muslim woman, converted […]
