Abu Sayyaf is one of several groups in the Philippines to have pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group Abu Sayyaf is one of the smallest and most violent jihadist groups in the southern ...

A court has sentenced to life 17 Islamic militants for kidnapping 21 people, including European tourists and Asian workers, ...

To recall, the Abu Sayyaf members in April 2000 kidnapped 21 people—of which 10 were Western tourists, 9 were Malaysians, and ...

Two Vietnamese men have been beheaded by Philippine Islamist group Abu Sayyaf, the country's military said. Their bodies were found on Basilan island in the country's south, a stronghold of the group.

“Notorious ISIL leader” Abu Sayyaf died in the May 2015 raid near Deir Ezzor, Syria, according to the Dec. 15 complaint filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. A hard drive ...

The Abu Sayyaf group has been holding missing TV journalist, Arlene de la Cruz, in southern Philippines, according to a senior official, even as it was reported that she had carried a $1 million ...

Deep in the islands of Sulu province in the southern Philippines, people used to rush home as soon as the sun set, fearing that militants from the Abu Sayyaf group might launch attacks against ...

"The MILF is helping the Abu Sayyaf and we have evidence to prove this," Detoyato said, without further elaborating. Detoyato said the fighting lasted several minutes and that soldiers had killed ...

The most recent one, Abu Sayyaf, has degenerated into a notorious kidnapping group, which the government says is linked to al Qaeda. Dozens of foreign tourists and journalists have been held ...