Basilan Sumisip News Today

Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos was not the country's first leader to set foot in strife-torn Basilan province contrary to a misleading claim shared repeatedly by his supporters on Facebook and YouTube. The posts misrepresented Marcos's remarks that he was the first to visit one area in Basilan. Government records showed at least three previous presidents visited other parts of the province, once a stronghold of an Islamic State-linked armed group.

ZAMBOANGA CITY: Police are holding a suspected Abu Sayyaf man linked to the kidnap-slay of a farmer here in April 2009 with officials saying the suspect is a relative of an Abu Sayyaf commander in the southern Philippine province of Basilan.

ZAMBOANGA CITY: Suspected Islamists attacked an army ranger post in the town of Ungkaya Pukan in the Muslim province of Basilan in southern Philippines sparking a gun battle that forced at least 300 people fleeing their homes to safety, police said.

ZAMBOANGA CITY: Suspected Islamists attacked an army ranger post in the town of Ungkaya Pukan in the Muslim province of Basilan in southern Philippines sparking a gun battle that forced at least 300 people fleeing their homes to safety, police said. Police said the fighting in Materling village began 1 p.m. on Friday, June 16, and lasted over an hour and wounded a civilian, Aragon Sajid Abon, 38. Civilians from Materling as well as those from...

Radzmil Jannatul led members of the militant group on Basilan Island, military commander says.