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Foreign tourists kidnapped from Philippine resort
AFP, Published on 22/09/2015
» Gunmen have kidnapped two Canadian tourists, a Norwegian employee and a Filipina from a luxury resort island in the conflict-racked southern Philippines, police said Tuesday.
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14 hostages taken in Philippines city, martial law declared
Associated Press, Published on 24/05/2017
» MANILA -- Muslim extremists abducted a Catholic priest and more than a dozen churchgoers while laying siege to a southern Philippine city overnight, burning buildings, ambushing soldiers and hoisting flags of the Islamic State group, officials said Wednesday.
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Seven Indonesian sailors kidnapped, held hostage: govt
AFP, Published on 24/06/2016
» JAKARTA - Seven Indonesian sailors have been kidnapped at sea in the southern Philippines, the government in Jakarta said on Friday, the latest in a spree of abductions by armed gangs in the strife-torn region.
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Philippines forces hit militants, civilians wave white flags
Associated Press, Published on 27/05/2017
» MARAWI, PHILIPPINES - Philippine military jets fired rockets at militant positions Saturday as soldiers fought to wrest control of a southern city from gunmen linked to the Islamic State group, witnesses said. Civilians waved flags from their windows to show they are not combatants.
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Abe to call for G-7's help for Asean anti-terror efforts
Published on 22/05/2016
» TOKYO - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe plans to call on his Group of Seven counterparts to jointly assist members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations to crack down on terrorism, a Japanese government source said Sunday.
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The latest: Army trucks roll deeper into Philippine city
Associated Press, Published on 25/05/2017
» MANILA -- The Latest on the siege of a Philippine city that led President Rodrigo Duterte to declare martial law in the south (all times local):
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Philippine troops rescue abducted British man and wife
Associated Press, Published on 25/11/2019
» MANILA: A Philippine general says troops have rescued a British man and his Filipino wife who were abducted by gunmen in their beach resort in the south last month and taken to the jungle hideouts of local militants allied with the Islamic State group.
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Militants behead Philippine soldier
Reuters, Published on 23/04/2017
» MANILA - A Filipino soldier kidnapped last week in the southern Philippines by Abu Sayyaf militants was found beheaded, the military said on Sunday, hours after government troops killed three more members of the Islamic State-linked group in a clash elsewhere.
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Philippine militants demand $84m ransom for hostages
Reuters, Published on 04/11/2015
» MANILA -- A small but violent al Qaeda-linked Islamist group in the Philippines has demanded a billion pesos (US$21 million) each for three men and a woman captured at a beach resort in September, one of the victims said in a video.
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Malaysia searches for 3 foreigners missing off Borneo
AFP, Published on 04/05/2016
» Malaysian authorities are searching for two Spaniards and a Hong Kong national who went missing in waters near the Philippines where a spate of recent kidnappings have taken place, a coast guard official said Wednesday.
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