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Army: Maute remnants target of Lanao del Sur airstrike

Bianca Dava, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Mar 03 12:14 AM

Three suspected terrorists were killed in the operation, Lt. Gen. Romeo Brawner says. On the government side, a soldier was killed and 2 were injured. Read more »

6 local terrorists, 3 soldiers killed in Sulu encounter

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jul 31 11:36 PM

Six bandits and 3 soldiers were killed in an encounter between the military and members of an unidentified local terrorist group in conflict-torn Patikul town Friday morning. Read more »

2 Maute group militants, 2 others surrender in Lanao del Sur

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Nov 14 09:54 PM

Two Maute rebels and two of their followers gave themselves up to the military in Maisu town, Lanao del Sur on Monday. Read more »

From bandits to House guests: Ex-Abu Sayyaf members tour Batasan

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Nov 14 07:45 PM

The House tour is part of the Basilan Farmers Exposure Program that aims to teach these returnees farming techniques as a source of livelihood. Read more »

3 suspected suicide bombers killed in Sulu

Jewel Reyes, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Nov 05 10:27 PM

Three alleged suicide bombers were killed by government troops in a gunbattle in Sitio Itawon, Brgy. Kan Islam, Indanan, Sulu on Tuesday, the military said. Read more »

Islamic State confirms leader Baghdadi is dead, appoints successor

Reuters
Posted at Nov 01 12:14 AM

The Islamic State militant group confirmed on Thursday its leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has been killed, the group's news agency Amaq said in an audiotape following a US weekend raid. Read more »

Suspected Islamic State radical stabs Indonesian security minister

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Oct 10 06:05 PM

A suspected Islamic State radical stabbed Indonesia's chief security minister Wiranto as he was stepping out of a vehicle Thursday, leaving two deep wounds in his stomach and injuring three others in the attack, officials said.   Read more »

French President vows 'unrelenting fight' against extremists

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Oct 08 07:39 PM

French President Emmanuel Macron vowed an "unrelenting fight" against Islamist extremists on Tuesday as he paid tribute to the four Paris police staff stabbed to death last week by a radicalized colleague. Read more »

Malaysian police arrest 15 over links to Islamic State, Maute group

Reuters
Updated as of Sep 26 04:58 PM

The first case involved a 25-year-old Indonesian palm plantation worker in the state of Sabah in Borneo, who police believe had acted as a facilitator for a family of five that carried out a suicide attack on a church in Jolo, in the southern Philippines in December 2018. Read more »

Swede, 3 Pinoys arrested for Isulan public market blast

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Sep 24 10:10 PM

Authorities have arrested 4 suspects, including a Swede, for the bombing of a public market in Isulan town, Sultan Kudarat last September 7. Read more »

Shrugging off Trump, FBI tackles right-wing extremists

Paul Handley, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Aug 26 08:44 AM

Ever since a young racist slaughtered 22 at a Texas Walmart, and another man murdered 10 in Ohio three weekends ago, the FBI has arrested at least seven right-wing extremists in what appears to be a more earnest effort to target white nationalist threats in the United States.   Read more »

Other countries must shoulder fight against jihadists: Trump

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Aug 22 08:01 AM

WASHINGTON - US President Donald Trump said Wednesday that other countries must assume the battle against Islamic extremists as the US negotiates a withdrawal from Afghanistan. Read more »