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(Eagle News) –Three members of the Abu Sayyaf– including a relative of Isnilon Hapilon–have surrendered to authorities in Basilan. Joint Task Force Basilan Commander Col. Juvymax Uy said Ben Salim Sapilin, alias Ben Bilog, Hapilon’s cousin; Rami Ben Sapilin, alias Attik; and Mohammad Endeng, alias Aburayhan; turned themselves in to the 74th Infantry Battalion Commander Lt. Col. Jonas Templo at the 74th Infantry Battalion headquarters on Tuesday. The surrender came a day after Abu Sayyaf […]
(Eagle News) — Reports are coming in that Abu Sayyaf leader and reported Islamist State emir in Southeast Asia, Isnilon Hapilon, had been killed this morning, October 16, but the military said that it has yet to confirm these. CNN Philippines cited military sources to say that Hapilon is now dead, and even showed a supposed bloodied face of the dead Islamist militant leader. Eagle News also received a photo of the supposed dead […]
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AFP) — Malaysian police said Saturday they have detained four locals and four foreigners—three Filipinos and one Albanian— suspected of militant activities, the latest arrest of alleged Islamic extremists in the Muslim-majority country. They were detained between September 27 and October 6 in the states of Sabah, Selangor and Perak, police said. Fears have been growing in Malaysia that Muslim militants are ramping up their activities, inspired by the Islamic State (IS) […]
(Eagle News) — A municipal councilor of Jolo has been kidnapped by members of the Abu Sayyaf, the military said on Wednesday. A report said the abduction of a certain Zed Tan was carried out around 6 p.m. on Sept. 17, at the boundary of Barangays Timbangan and Tagbak in Indanan, Sulu. The military said the abductors, an undetermined number of ASG members, were riding a red vehicle. After forcibly taking Tan, they proceeded in […]
(Eagle News) — Government troops have now take control of Masiu Bridge in Marawi City, considered as the last of three critical bridges that the Islamist fighters had occupied at the start of the war so they could control the city’s business district. Masiu bridge is also the bridge that had been used as a “possible escape route” of the Islamist terrorists in Marawi City, consisting of the Maute group, the Abu Sayyaf group, […]
ZAMBOANGA CITY (Eagle News) – Lalo ngayong paiigtingin ng mga tauhan ng Armed Forces of the Philippines Western Mindanao Command (Wesmincom) ang kanilang mga kakayahan para ma-detect ang mga improvised explosive device (IED). Sa pagbisita ni Lt. Gen Carlito Galvez sa mga kampo ng sundalo sa area ng Basilan at Sulu kung saan inilulunsad ang mga military operations laban sa mga bandidong grupo, sinabi nitong dapat madagdagan ang mga kaalaman ng mga tropa sa pag-detect […]
ZAMBOANGA CITY, Philippines (Eagle News) – Twenty-three members of the Abu Sayyaf recently surrendered to government forces, including four new members from the island of Sulu. The ASG members now cover limited areas of Zamboanga, Basilan, Sulu, and Tawi-tawi or Zambasulta, according to the police. The ASG members surrendered to the Philippine Army’s 2nd Special Forces Battalion in Barangay Likod, Pata town in the province of Sulu. Among those who surrendered were Aldin […]
(Eagle News) — Omar Maute and Isnilon Hapilon are still in Marawi’s battlezone along with the other Islamist terrorists who are still fighting it out with government troops, according to the Armed Forces of the Philippines. AFP Spokesperson Brig. General Restituto Padilla said the two Islamist militant leaders are leading the terrorists in fighting the government forces who are conducting what the military termed as the “final push” against the Islamist extremists. The Islamist militants’ […]
(Agence France Presse) — A Vietnamese sailor kidnapped by the Abu Sayyaf in Mindanao has been rescued after nine months in captivity, the military said on Monday, following the beheading of two fellow crewmen in July. Government troops rescued the hostage on Sunday in Basilan, a stronghold of the kidnap-for-ransom group, following intensified operations against the militants, authorities said. “The hostage was able to run from the militants in the course of military operations and our troops […]
(Eagle News) — Nine people were killed and 10 others were hurt after suspected Abu Sayyaf members attacked a village in Basilan, early Monday, a report said. The report quoted Chief Superintendent Reuben Theodore Sindac, Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao police director, as saying that 30 to 50 armed men attacked Barangay Tubigan around 5:30 a.m. They reportedly set on fire houses and other structures and attacked residents. Authorities are in pursuit of the bandits. […]
Three men kidnapped by Islamist militants in the southern Philippines escaped while their captors prayed, dodging bullets as they ran, police said Saturday after a ruse using fake ransom money failed. The fate of a fourth man who ran off in a different direction was unclear. The construction workers were taken to the police on Jolo island on Friday, four weeks after being abducted by the Abu Sayyaf group, which is holding more than […]
The bodies of seven loggers who were beheaded by members of the Abu Sayyaf Group have been found in Basilan. Local police chief John Cundo told AFP Nestor Divinagracia, 50; his son Ily, 25; Berto Lacastesantos, 48; Hernando Sally, 53; Renato Casiple Jr., 36; Rene Sanson, 28; and Mamerto Falcasantos, 55; who were abducted last July 20 at Lower Mahayahay, Maluso town, were found over the weekend in a mountainous village, in Barangay Switch Yakal, Lantawan. […]
