Sources: Reuters
Nine Dawlah Islamiyah militants are killed while four soldiers are injured during a shootout in the village of Taporug near Piagapo town in Lanao del Sur, Philippines. Two of the killed were suspected of being involved in the December 2023 Mindanao bombing; six other militants are on the run. 2024-01-25
Five soldiers and three militants die in an attack that also injured several others in Patikul, Sulu, in The Philippines. 2019-02-2
Filipino ISIL leaders Isnilon Hapilon and Omar Maute are reportedly killed during the siege of Marawi. 2017-10-16
A new set of kidnappings and a jail break plague Sulu province in the southern region of Mindanao in the Philippines. 2017-07-17
At least 14 are killed in clashes with suspected Abu Sayyaf militants in Sulu, Philippines. 2016-11-18
Three people, including a pregnant woman, are kidnapped in Patikul, Sulu, in the Philippines Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao. No group has claimed responsibility, though Abu Sayyaf is suspected. 2016-08-6
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