Credit to Author: The Manila Times| Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2020 08:30:03 +0000
A doctor was abducted by alleged Abu Sayyaf rebels in his own clinic in Jolo, Sulu, prompting the military to initiate search and rescue operations. Lt. Gen. Cirilito Sobejana, commander of the Armed Forces’ Western Mindanao Command, said Dr. Daniel Moreno was kidnapped by four fully armed men at Barangay Walled City at 7 p.m. […]
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Credit to Author: jespinosa| Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2019 05:44:38 +0000
President Rodrigo Duterte will visit Monday the military camp in Jolo province that was attacked by two suicide bombers on June 28.
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Read moreCredit to Author: acerojano| Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2019 11:07:58 +0000
Two soldiers were wounded and a suspected Abu Sayyaf member was killed in a 40-minute gunbattle between government troops and the notorious bandit group in Sitio Bud Taming, Barangay Panglahayan in the town of Patikul in Sulu on Thursday morning, April 11.
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Credit to Author: hniitsu| Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2019 07:54:59 +0000
ZAMBOANGA CITY — President Duterte is expected in Jolo, Sulu for the commemoration of the 77th Araw ng Kagitingan today. Colonel Gerry Besana, the public affairs officer of the Western Mindanao Command, said Duterte would be accompanied by Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana in Kuta Heneral Teodulfo Bautista in Busbus village in Jolo town at 4:30 […]
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Credit to Author: mfrialde| Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2019 03:49:25 +0000
Two policemen were hurt in an attack by some 15 members of the Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) in Patikul, Sulu on Tuesday, police said.
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Read moreCredit to Author: jespinosa| Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2019 04:55:09 +0000
The Philippine National Police (PNP) is on the hunt for the ten-year-old daughter of suicide bombers — believed to be Indonesian — whom they reportedly left to sympathizers of the Abu Sayyaf Group before carrying out the bombings at the Jolo cathedral.
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Read moreCredit to Author: clopez| Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2019 21:32:08 +0000
The Jolo attack, allegedly carried out by two Indonesian suicide bombers, has renewed terrorism fears across the country.
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Credit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2019 10:18:19 +0000
The Indonesian couple believed to be suicide bombers in the January 27 Jolo cathedral twin explosions had a 10-year-old daughter they left to Abu Sayyaf sympathizers days before the blasts.
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Read moreCredit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2019 09:03:56 +0000
The AFP is still trying to confirm reports that Abu Sayyaf leader Idang Susukan was killed from the recent military operations in Jolo.
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Read moreCredit to Author: cmiranda| Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2019 09:01:17 +0000
A military official here said they were cautious about believing reports that key Abu Sayyaf sub-commander Idang Susukan, who was behind several kidnappings in Sabah over the past decade, had died in the recent military offensives in Jolo.
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