It’s not clear if Abu Turaife can garner support from IS adherents in the region and galvanize local militants or whether pro-IS groups in the Philippines are on the decline. Under rising ...

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine troops, backed by airstrikes and artillery fire, killed 11 suspected Islamic militants ... and the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters, or the BIFF, groups ...

The identity of the two AQAP fighters was not provided ... Islamist groups such as the Moro Islamic Liberation Front and its splinter group, the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Movement. Bill Roggio is a ...

By storming the Southern Philippine city of Zamboanga, veteran fighters of the Moro National ... a quest for an independent homeland for his Bangsamoro people, who are also Muslim.

The allies Dawlah Islamiya and the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters, tagged in deadly bombings in Central Mindanao in recent years, are led by violent religious extremists involved in trafficking ...

COTABATO CITY—The armed skirmishes that continued to rage between government troops and those of the extremist Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF) in several towns in Maguindanao del Sur ...

including leaders of the outlawed Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters. Brig. Gen Romeo Jaime Macapaz, director of PRO-BAR, told reporters on Monday, October 21, that Membisa, most known as ...

Nearly 300 people have died in fighting between Philippine forces and the Islamic State-linked Maute group which seized the southern city of Marawi on May 23. The attack by Maute and its allies on the ...

Interim administration officials in Bangsamoro Friday filed nominations to participate in the first elections scheduled to be held next year in the autonomous region in southern Philippines.

According to Maki Pulido’s report on 24 Oras, the PNP looking into whether the abduction of Elliot Eastman, 26, could be linked to local terrorist groups like the Abu Sayyaf or the Bangsamoro Islamic ...

WHEN FIREFIGHTERS ARRIVED at 102 Belair Street in Brockton, Massachusetts, in the predawn hours of April 17, 2003, they observed two teenagers poking their heads out of second-floor windows. One of ...

The Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF), also known as the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Movement, is an Islamist militant organization based in Mindanao, the Philippines. It is a smaller ...