Sources: Reuters
The Philippine Army announces that it has killed Nawapi Abdulsaid, an Abu Sayyaf militant, during a shootout two days ago in Hadji Mohammad Ajul, Basilan, Philippines. Abdulsaid was involved in fifteen beheadings as well as in attacks against security forces. 2024-04-26
Two people, a rebel and a soldier, are killed, and fourteen others are injured in a shooting incident in Maimbung, Sulu, Philippines. 2023-06-24
Moro National Liberation Front chairman Nur Misuari surrenders Abduljihad Susukan, a sub-commander of the ISIL-affiliated Abu Sayyaf militant group, to the Philippine National Police in Davao City, following the latter's involvement in the 2015 Roseller Lim and Samal Island kidnappings and beheadings. Susukan surrendered to Misuari in April 2020. 2020-08-14
Five soldiers and three militants die in an attack that also injured several others in Patikul, Sulu, in The Philippines. 2019-02-2
The Abu Sayyaf militant group beheads their German hostage Jurgen Kantner in Indanan, Philippines. 2017-02-27
Abu Sayyaf militants release 10 Indonesians the group had kidnapped from their tugboat and barge on March 28. 2016-05-1
Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines agree on joint naval patrols after an increase of kidnappings by the Abu Sayyaf militants. 2016-04-28
The U.K. Foreign Office and the U.S. State Department issue travel advisories regarding the Philippine island of Mindanao and the Sulu Archipelago after a recent kidnapping near Davao City. 2016-04-22