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The Philippines announces that Islamic terrorist group Abu Sayyaf has been "fully dismantled", bringing an end to the decades-long jihadist insurgency. Twenty members of the group remain in Sulu and Basilan provinces, and negotiations are ongoing for their surrender.
2024-03-22

Two Islamic State operatives, including Abu Zacharia, a leader of Abu Sayyaf, are killed in separate operations by joint security forces in Marawi, Philippines.
2023-06-14

Five Abu Sayyaf militants are killed during a shootout with police in Beaufort, Sabah, Malaysia. All of those killed are Filipinos.
2021-05-18

During a shootout with soldiers in Sulu, Philippines, Abu Sayyaf militants kills an Indonesian fisherman who was abducted early this year. A militant of the group also died in the fight.
2020-09-28

The Abu Sayyaf militant group beheads their German hostage Jurgen Kantner in Indanan, Philippines.
2017-02-27

Abu Sayyaf of the Philippines allegedly kidnap three Filipino fishermen from their trawler off the Malaysian state of Sabah on Borneo island. [http:--www.ibtimes.sg-filipino-militants-kidnap-three-fishermen-sabah-waters-3217 ("International Business Times")] [http:--m.thesundaily.my-node-393969 ("The Sun Daily")]date=July 2019
2016-09-12

The Abu Sayyaf militant group threatens to behead a Canadian hostage, a Filipina hostage, and a Norwegian hostage.
2016-05-4

Philippine officials report four Indonesian sailors were kidnapped last night off the Philippines' southernmost town of Sitangkai, Tawi-Tawi, near Malaysia's Sabah state. Seven gunmen in a blue speedboat attacked two Indonesian-flagged tugboats. Six other sailors, including one who was shot, were not taken by ISIL-linked Abu Sayyaf militants.
2016-04-16

Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak condemns the Philippine-based Abu Sayyaf's beheading of a Malaysian man. Businessman Bernard Then and a woman were kidnapped in May from the Malaysia-island Sabah; the woman was released last week. Philippine Colonel Restituto Padilla said the killing followed a "failure of the negotiations about money."
2015-11-18

The Philippines asks the International Court of Arbitration at The Hague to invalidate China's claims to virtually all of the South China Sea. The hearing was attended by observers from Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam.
2015-07-9