Abu Sayyaf releases “final” hostage video before deadline
Abu Sayyaf has issued its final video and warning of the three foreign hostages held captive in Sulu. The video was released on Sunday and is said to be the …
Abu Sayyaf has issued its final video and warning of the three foreign hostages held captive in Sulu. The video was released on Sunday and is said to be the …
Abu Sayyaf has warned it will execute Robert Hall if the Canadian or Philippine Government does not pay for his release. The ransom demand for Me Hall is $16 million. …
Abu Sayyaf has freed a Chinese woman who they kidnapped nearly two years ago on the island of Basilan. Sulu provincial police say Yahong Tan Lim was freed at 1pm on Tuesday …
Authorities have confirmed that ten Indonesian captives have been freed by the Abu Sayyaf on Sunday after they were paid the ransom of 50 million pesos. No details were given …
Locals from the village of Talipao, Sulu have discovered the remains of a headless cadaver in a dry creek-bed on Wednesday. Military reports say the body was discovered at 10am on …
Canada will not pay ransoms for the release of its citizens held hostage overseas, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Tuesday after the gruesome killing of a Canadian in the Philippines. …
A news report coming out of Canada has confirmed that the hostage beheaded by Abu Sayyaf in Jolo, Sulu Island, was John Ridsdel. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau confirmed the news on …
Islamist militants seized four Indonesian crew of a tugboat in the southern Philippines on Friday night, the third attack on slow moving vessels in about a month, a military spokesman …
The Philippines has dismissed as “purely propaganda” Islamic State’s claim that its militants killed scores of government troops in ambushes and said there was no evidence directly linking southern Muslim …
Tired and emotional, former Italian priest Rolando del Torchio sat in a hospital, finally free after his captors were paid a 29-million peso ransom. Del Torchio said he wants to set aside …
Islamist terrorists on a remote Philippines island have again threatened to execute a pair of Canadian men if ransom isn’t paid soon. The violent Islamist militant group Abu Sayyaf wants …
A retired Italian priest abducted six months ago by suspected Abu Sayyaf militants has been released, police and the Italian government say. Rolando Del Torchio was picked up at a …
The Abu Sayyaf Group which kidnapped 10 Indonesian crew members from two ships is demanding 10 million pesos for their release. The Foreign Affairs Ministry in Indonesia confirmed the report …
The leader of a southern Philippine gang behind the kidnapping of an Australian ex-soldier and an Irish priest was shot dead by security forces on Sunday, the military said. Waning …
The mayor of Cotabato City has said that at least 1,000 residents of Central Mindanao have aligned themselves with the Islamic State (IS). Mayor Japal Gyani Jr said that IS sympathizers …
Philippine marines say they have killed eight members of a group that has pledged allegiance to the Islamic State in a gun battle in the south of the country. The men …
To add insult to injury, the family of beheaded Malaysian hostage have discovered they paid over five million pesos ransom for a body that is not their loved one. In …
Military sources say they received a report that a white speedboat had docked at Barangay Kaunayan, Patikul, Sulu at 12.30pm on Tuesday, September 22. The information was not released to the press …
The Special Investigation Task Group assigned to Ocean View Marina in Samal Island has released what they call a “cartographic sketch” of one of the 11 men responsible for the …
Authorities have admitted that they knew about a possible kidnapping on Samal Island via intelligence that appears to have been ignored. Information about Abu Sayyaf was intercepted and a …
A manhunt is underway throughout the Davao del Sur and Davao del Norte regions after a boatload of kidnappers came ashore on Samal Island and seized at least four people, three of whom were …
A Philippine court has declared militant group Abu Sayyaf to be a terrorist group. The ruling provides the government with another legal weapon against the militants who have long terrorised …