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MANILA, Philippines (AFP) — MANILA, Philippines (AFP) Philippine soldiers on Monday rescued a British man and his wife from Islamic State-linked jihadists nearly two months after the couple were kidnapped from their beach resort in the nation’s south, authorities said. Troops recovered the pair after a firefight with gunmen from the Abu Sayyaf group on the restive southern island of Jolo, which is a stronghold of the kidnap-for-ransom gang that has been behind some […]
(Eagle News) – The Philippine military said that the ISIS liaison to the Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) had been killed in a gunfight with army troops in Patiukul, Sulu. The Armed Forces of the Philippines identified the killed ISIS liaison as Talha Jumsah aka Abu Talha. He was killed in a clash with the Philippine Army 1st Scout Ranger Battalion in So, Tubig Amu, Barangay Tanum, Patikul, Sulu. Brigadier General Antonio Nafarrete, 1101st Brigade […]
(Eagle News) – The Philippine military prevented a plan of foreign terrorists to stage a suicide bombing in Jolo, Sulu on Tuesday, Nov. 5, with the killing of three suicide bombers, two of them foreign terrorists, in Indanan town. In a statement, the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) said that terrorists – two foreigners and a local Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) member — were “neutralized” in “a military operation intended to apprehend foreign terrorists […]
Companion also arrested (Eagle News)–An alleged member of the Abu Sayyaf was arrested in Zamboanga on Friday, Oct. 25. Authorities said Saribin C. Jamilon alyas Renato Menez, 43, was nabbed by members of the police and the military kn Don Toribio St., Barangay Tetuan, at 2 a.m. Also nabbed was his companion, Sarah Leila Akbar Jamilon. During the operation, an M16 Rifle, one AK 47 Rifle, one M14 Rifle, three cal 45 rifles, one cal […]
(Eagle News)–The National Bureau of Investigation has arrested three alleged members of the Abu Sayyaf supposedly involved in kidnapping incidents in Sulu and Basilan in 2001 and 2002, respectively. In a statement, the NBI said nabbed in a span of three weeks were Ibnus Isa alias Jade, Amerudin Parasan alias Mudasier and Abdel-Amin Bandahala, alias Abu Black. The NBI said Isa was arrested on September 27 in Taguig, Parasan on October 3 in Port Area […]
(Eagle News)–An alleged sub-leader of the Abu Sayyaf group was arrested in Quezon City recently. The suspect was identified as Ibrahim Lambog Mullo. Mullo was arrested along Commonwealth Avenue following a tip from a concerned citizen. Seized from him were an unlicensed caliber .45 pistol and a fragmentation grenade. Criminal charges will be filed against him.
(Eagle News)–The National Bureau of Investigation has arrested two alleged members of the Abu Sayyaf Group in separate operations in Quezon City and Manila. The NBI identified the suspects as Anwar Saburul Morotoh and Ismael Maomar Timbao, allegedly also behind the kidnapping of six members of the Jehovah’s Witness group in 2002, and the beheading of two of them. NBI Counterterrorism Division head Raoul Manguerra said Anwar was the nephew of killed ASG leader Isnilon […]
A Filipino militant is suspected of carrying out an apparent suicide bombing last week in the southern Philippines, an army general said Tuesday, a grim first for the insurgency-plagued nation. Philippine targets have been struck in the past in rare instances of suicide attacks, but this would be first believed to have been carried out by a Filipino. The bombing Friday of a military base on the southern island of Jolo killed at least five […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte on Wednesday, June 19, told soldiers not to surrender to the Abu Sayyaf if they find themselves in dire straits in combat. Duterte said he has seen, after all, how some soldiers who gave themselves up would be decapitated by the kidnap-for-ransom group and would “only be treated like dogs” in the group’s camp. “So do not ever surrender, especially that part of the warzone sa Jolo. Kasi ho […]
by Cecil MORELLA Agence France Presse A Dutch birdwatcher held by Islamic State-linked militants was killed Friday during a firefight between his kidnappers and soldiers in the southern Philippines, according to the military, which said he was shot by his captors as he tried to escape. Ewold Horn had been held since 2012 by the Abu Sayyaf kidnap-for-ransom group and was fatally wounded as soldiers fought a 90-minute gun battle with the jihadists on […]
(Eagle News)–An alleged member of the Abu Sayyaf was arrested in Quezon City, the police said on Monday, April 15. Abuhair Kullim Indal, whose aliases include Annual Dasil and Abu Khair, was nabbed in a house at the Salam Compound in Barangay Culiat on Friday at 4:25 p.m. The suspect had a warrant for his arrest for kidnapping and serious illegal detention. It was still unclear why he was in Metro Manila at that time. […]
(Eagle News)—At least 12 Abu Sayyaf bandits were killed in several clashes with the military on Thursday, April 11, in Sulu. The Western Mindanao Command said the first clash was between the group led by Radullan Sahiron and Hatib Hajan Sawadjaan and the 32nd Infantry in Sitio Bud Taming, Barangay Panglayahan, Patikul. Past 3 p.m., members of the 1st Scout Ranger Battalion engaged 80 Abu Sayyaf members led by Hatib Hajan Sawadjaan and Almujer Yadah […]
