Abu Sayyaf

ZAMBOANGA CITY, Philippines -- One of six non-governmental organization workers abducted by the Abu Sayyaf in Basilan has become the first victim in the island-province to file charges against members of the bandit group.  

Muslim extremists have abducted a Filipino-Chinese businessman in the southern Philippines in the latest in a rash of abductions in the area, police said on Monday.  

Suspected Abu Sayyaf guerrillas attacked soldiers in different parts of Patikul, Sulu Thursday while simultaneously torching a school in the area.  

" Government troops on Tuesday mounted fresh operations to flush out Abu Sayyaf militants, blamed for the spate of kidnappings-for-ransom in Basilan island in the southern Philippines.  

" Abu Sayyaf militants, whose group is tied to al-Qaeda and Jemaah Islamiya, attacked Thursday government soldiers and torched a school in Sulu island in the southern Philippines, officials said.  

" At least 17 people were injured in an Abu Sayyaf grenade attack late Tuesday outside a popular hamburger fast food chain in the southern Philippines, officials said.  

" Suspected Abu Sayyaf militants have freed a kidnapped Muslim school principal, but are still holding a Chinese trader in the southern island of Sulu, police said Tuesday.  

" Government soldiers raided Saturday an alleged hideout of the Abu Sayyaf group in the southern Philippine island of Sulu where they seized four automatic weapons and hundreds of munitions, a regional army ...  

Tuesday, December 30, 2008 4-year-old girl seized ZAMBOANGA CITY -- Two suspected Abu Sayyaf bandits seized a four-year-old child Sunday, four days after they freed one of their hostages in the southern ...  

Sulu Bishop Angelito Lampon on Tuesday appealed for the safe release of Taiwanese trader and a school principal, who were kidnapped late last week by suspected Abu Sayyaf bandits.  

" Government forces battled Sunday Abu Sayyaf militants in two fronts in the southern Philippines, where security forces, backed by US military intelligence, are trying to defeat the notorious group blamed for ...  

ZAMBOANGA CITY: More than 3,000 residents in at least 13 villages in four remote towns in Basilan have fled their homes amid reports that combined forces of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front and Abu Sayyaf ...  

" Abu Sayyaf militants fired at a police station in the southern Philippine province of Sulu, but there were no reports of casualties or injuries, officials said Friday.  

The military has confirmed that pursuit operations against members of the Abu Sayyaf Group in the towns of Albarka and Tipo-tipo in Basilan province has entered its fourth day.