The 21st Century Phenomenon
At least 15 Islamic extremists, including three senior leaders, Umbra Jumdail, Zulifli bin Hir and Muawiyah Anjala, were killed in an air raid in Parang town in Jolo Island at dawn Thursday 02/02/2012.
Hussein Atris was born in the Shiite town Nabatiya, South Lebanon, on 11/11/1964. His familly is well connected to the Hizbullah.
An explosion has ripped through a small hotel in Zamboanga, the southern Philippines, on Sunday 11/27/2011 evening, killing three people and injuring at least 27 more
Seven soldiers, including a junior officer, were killed while 21 others were injured, on Thursday 07/28/2011 dawn, in an encounter with Abu Sayyaf bandits in Patikul town in Sulu (Jolo),
More than a dozen armed men abducted, on Tuesday 07/12/2011 dawn, a naturalized American, Gerfa Yeatts Lunsmann, 50 and her teenage son Kevin.
The Philippines has overtaken Indonesia and Thailand as the country facing the greatest threat from terrorism according to FTI-International Risk report released on Tuesday 01/11/2011
A bomb exploded inside a Catholic Church during the Christmas mass in Jolo, Southern Philippines, injured 11, on Saturday 12/25/2010 at about 07:20, according to local news sites.
Foreseeing an “imminent” terror attack in Manila, Australia and Britain have warned, Tuesday 11/02/2010, their nationals against traveling to the Philippines.
Philippine troops clashed with Abu Sayyaf gunmen in a southern coastal village, on Sunday 09/19/2010, and killed Abdukarim Sali, a long-wanted militant.
Three suspected Abu Sayyaf members, possibly involved in terror attacks in Basilan province, the Southern Philippines, on Tuesday 04/13/2010, were killed in an encounter with the military.