Abu Sayyaf Group

An Islamist plot to bomb a Manila shopping mall as US President Donald Trump and other world leaders arrived in the city for a summit has been foiled, Philippine police said Friday.

Philippine authorities were on the lookout on Monday for a Malaysian who could be the new leader of pro-ISIS groups in Southeast Asia, security chiefs said, following the deaths of several high-profile regional extremists.

The Philippine military says it has killed 70 Abu Sayyaf militants and captured 32 others in a major offensive that began in July against the group, which is accused of kidnapping sailors from neighboring countries for ransom.

Philippine police blamed Islamic State-linked rebels today for a bombing that killed 14 people in President Rodrigo Duterte's hometown and dealt a blow to the firebrand leader's bloody crackdown on narcotics and militancy.

The Abu Sayyaf Islamic terrorist group carried out a bomb attack in Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's home town that killed at least 14 people, the city's mayor said Saturday.

The widow of late ISIS group financial leader Abu Sayyaf was charged Monday for her alleged role in the death of US aid worker Kayla Mueller last year.

The wife of a deceased ISIS leader was charged on Monday in federal court in Virginia with conspiracy in the death of American aid worker Kayla Mueller who was killed a year ago while being held hostage in Syria by the militant group, the U.S. Justice Department said.

Three Philippine soldiers were killed in a major assault on a Muslim extremist camp in the southern Philippines, the military said today.

Eight members of a criminal gang that pledged allegiance to Islamic State jihadists were killed in a firefight with the military in the southern Philippines, officials said today.

A Philippine soldier opened fire on a prayer meeting at a military base today, killing five of his comrades before troops intervened and shot him dead, an army spokesman said.

Gunmen seized a retired Italian priest in the strife-torn southern Philippines, authorities said Today, the latest abduction blamed on an infamous Islamic militant group that specialises in kidnappings-for-ransom.

The first explosion on Basilan island killed three bodyguards of local official Abdulbaki Ajibon and a fourth person, they said.

US hostage Kayla Mueller was raped repeatedly by Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the self-proclaimed caliph of the Islamic State jihadist group, before her death, US television reported Friday.

A US commando raid in Syria last month that killed a senior figure from the Islamic State group produced a wealth of information about the jihadists' finances and leadership, the New York Times reported Tuesday, citing US officials.

The captured wife of a senior Islamic State leader who was killed in a weekend raid will face questions over what she and her husband knew about the group's treatment of hostages, including Americans, US officials said.

An Islamist plot to bomb a Manila shopping mall as US President Donald Trump and other world leaders arrived in the city for a summit has been foiled, Philippine police said Friday.

Philippine authorities were on the lookout on Monday for a Malaysian who could be the new leader of pro-ISIS groups in Southeast Asia, security chiefs said, following the deaths of several high-profile regional extremists.

The Philippine military says it has killed 70 Abu Sayyaf militants and captured 32 others in a major offensive that began in July against the group, which is accused of kidnapping sailors from neighboring countries for ransom.

Philippine police blamed Islamic State-linked rebels today for a bombing that killed 14 people in President Rodrigo Duterte's hometown and dealt a blow to the firebrand leader's bloody crackdown on narcotics and militancy.

The Abu Sayyaf Islamic terrorist group carried out a bomb attack in Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's home town that killed at least 14 people, the city's mayor said Saturday.

The widow of late ISIS group financial leader Abu Sayyaf was charged Monday for her alleged role in the death of US aid worker Kayla Mueller last year.

The wife of a deceased ISIS leader was charged on Monday in federal court in Virginia with conspiracy in the death of American aid worker Kayla Mueller who was killed a year ago while being held hostage in Syria by the militant group, the U.S. Justice Department said.

Three Philippine soldiers were killed in a major assault on a Muslim extremist camp in the southern Philippines, the military said today.

Eight members of a criminal gang that pledged allegiance to Islamic State jihadists were killed in a firefight with the military in the southern Philippines, officials said today.

A Philippine soldier opened fire on a prayer meeting at a military base today, killing five of his comrades before troops intervened and shot him dead, an army spokesman said.

Gunmen seized a retired Italian priest in the strife-torn southern Philippines, authorities said Today, the latest abduction blamed on an infamous Islamic militant group that specialises in kidnappings-for-ransom.

The first explosion on Basilan island killed three bodyguards of local official Abdulbaki Ajibon and a fourth person, they said.

US hostage Kayla Mueller was raped repeatedly by Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the self-proclaimed caliph of the Islamic State jihadist group, before her death, US television reported Friday.

A US commando raid in Syria last month that killed a senior figure from the Islamic State group produced a wealth of information about the jihadists' finances and leadership, the New York Times reported Tuesday, citing US officials.

The captured wife of a senior Islamic State leader who was killed in a weekend raid will face questions over what she and her husband knew about the group's treatment of hostages, including Americans, US officials said.