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Bomb maker Mundi Sawadjaan, a leader of Abu Sayyaf and suspect in the 2020 suicide bombings in Sulu, is killed by security forces during a military operation in Basilan, Philippines.
2023-12-2

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

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

Six Vietnamese sailors are kidnapped by the Abu Sayyaf off the coast of the Philippines.
2016-11-12

Abu Sayyaf frees a Norwegian hostage for a ransom of ₱30 million (US$638,000) and releases three kidnapped Indonesians from Sabah.
2016-09-17

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

An explosion at a night market in Davao City, Philippines, kills at least 14 people and injures 60. President of the Philippines and former Davao City mayor Rodrigo Duterte was in the city at the time. Abu Sayyaf have claimed responsibility for the attack.
2016-09-2

Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines agree on joint naval patrols after an increase in kidnappings by the Abu Sayyaf militants.
2016-04-28

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