Members of local terrorist groups (LTGs) in the country have dropped to just about 50 compared to 1,257 nine years ago, the ...

The Bondi Beach attackers, a father-son duo, traveled to the southern Philippines before the incident. The region's history ...

Before Saturday, most Americans had never heard of Abu Sayyaf. But according to the Department of Defense, the senior Islamic State leader wielded the kind of power worthy of sending U.S. Special ...

Dec. 20, 2001 -- U.S. officials believe there are strong historic links between Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda terrorist network and the Philippines' decade-old Abu Sayyaf rebel group, but officials ...

An Abu Sayyaf militant who was directly involved in the kidnapping and beheading of Canadian and German nationals has been killed a firefight with the Philippines Army during a thwarted hostage taking ...

The mopping up of Islamic militants in Southeast Asia continues. Philippine authorities have arrested Adzhar Mawalil, an Abu Sayyaf gunman linked to the 2000 kidnapping of Western tourists from a ...

Philippines-based Islamist extremist group Abu Sayyaf has made international headlines with the kidnapping and subsequent killing of Canadian John Ridsdel, whose remains were found the day after a ...

Philippines-based Islamist extremist group Abu Sayyaf says it has abducted a German man off the coast of Malaysia, according to the Philippine military. “The ASG (Abu Sayyaf group) is claiming to have ...