southern Philippines May 25, 2017. (REUTERS/Romeo Ranoco) The Marawi assault came just months after security forces attacked the mountain lair of Isnilon Hapilon, a long-time leader of Abu Sayyaf ...

Richard Heydarian, an assistant professor of political science at Manila’s De La Salle University, told TIME a few weeks before the Marawi siege ... the Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG), beheaded ...

The effort, known to experts as "the Philippines model," draws on a "victory" on the Philippine island of Basilan, where U.S. forces in 2002 ended the dominance of Abu Sayyaf without firing so ...

TNI commander Gen Gatot Nurmantyo said the force was well prepared for every possible measure to assist the Philippines and ... from the hand of suspected Abu Sayyaf militant groups.

Members of the Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) and Rajah Solaiman Movement (RSM) have claimed responsibility for numerous attacks on civilians in the Philippines, and are implicated in many others.

Abu Sayyaf finally releases another captive.

MANILA, Philippines (CNN ... to look for the dead bodies if they want to," Abu Sayyaf spokesman Abu Sabaya said on Filipino radio Wednesday. Asked if he meant the Abu Sayyaf plans to kill ...

The Philippines ... of most of Abu Sayyaf leaders and fighters. Ghalib Andang, the militant who led the kidnapping, was killed by police commandos during an attempted jailbreak and siege in ...