ZAMBOANGA CITY – Fourteen Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) personalities surrendered to authorities on Wednesday, October 4, in Basilan. Six of them were members and eight were supporters. A FORMER Abu Sayyaf Group member surrenders to the 101st Infantry Brigade headquarters in Isabela City,...
ILIGAN CITY – Three supporters of an Abu Sayyaf Group leader surrendered to the 1101st Infantry Brigade led by Brig. Gen. Eugene Boquio in Bud Bayug, Talipao, Sulu on Tuesday, September 19. Boquio said that the surrenderers were supporters of ASG sub-leader Abduljihad Susukan, alias...
ILIGAN CITY – Two wives of an Abu Sayyaf Group sub-leader and the 20-year-old widow of an ASG member were apprehended in a joint law enforcement operation on Thursday evening, June 15, in Basilan. Joint Task Force Basilan acting commander Col. Frederick Sales identified them as Marilyn Lasigan...
ILIGAN CITY – Joint Task Force Sulu commander Major Gen. Ignatius Patrimonio has commended the 1103rd Infantry Brigade for the surrender of a 13-year-old Egyptian Abu Sayyaf Group fighter and subleader in Indanan, Sulu on Wednesday, June 14. Patrimonio attributed this achievement to intelligence...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – A teenage foreign terrorist fighter who was an Abu Sayyaf sub-leader surrendered to the military authorities at the 1103rd Infantry Brigade headquarters in Indanan, Sulu on Wednesday, June 14. A Western Mindanao Command report said that the foreign fighter, 13-year-old Egyptian...
ZAMBOANGA CITY (PNA) – A leader of the Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) was killed in a clash with police in the hinterlands of Basilan province, police said on Wednesday, June 14. Police Col. Carlos Madronio, Basilan police director, said Nurudin Muddalan was slain in a gunfight around 10 p.m. on Tuesday,...
ILIGAN CITY – Two members of the Abu Sayyaf Group were killed in an encounter in Sumisip, Basilan on Tuesday, June 6. Joint Task Force Basilan acting commander Col. Frederick Sales identified them as “Dodong,” a member of the Sulu-based Daulah Islamiyah-ASG under sub-leader Mudzrimar...
The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) is confirming reports that Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) leader Radullan Sahiron alias "Commander Putol" has died in Sulu, a ranking military officer disclosed Tuesday, May 23. (Radullan Sahiron alias Commander Putol / Photo courtesy of US Federal Bureau of...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – Two Abu Sayyaf Group members surrendered here on Tuesday, April 11. NAVAL Forces Western Mindanao commander Admiral Don Anthony Miraflor receives two Abu Sayyaf surrenderers at the NFWM headquarters in Zamboanga City. (Photo by NFWM) Adzhar Usman Langkang and Karasan Turabin...
ILIGAN CITY -- Two Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) members surrendered to the military in Sulu on Monday morning, Feb. 6. Joint Task Force Sulu Commander Maj. Gen. Ignatius Patrimonio identified the ASG members who surrendered as Hadjang, 50, and Nadz, 20. The Two ASG men submitted themselves to the 6th...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – An Abu Sayyaf Group sub-leader with a reward of more than P5 million for his arrest was nabbed here on Sunday, Feb. 12. ASG sub-leader Isnirul Kirih was arrested by the police in Barangay Sinunuc, Zamboanga City on Sunday, Feb. 12. (PNP photo) Col. Richard Verceles, Area Police...
TWENTY-one members of the Abu Sayyaf Group yield to authorities in a PNP camp in Asturias, Jolo, Sulu. (PNP photo) ZAMBOANGA CITY -- Twenty-one members of the Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) surrendered to authorities led by the Special Action Force on Jan. 4, Wednesday, in Asturias, Jolo, Sulu. The...