Basilan was the birthplace of the Abu Sayyaf group (ASG), considered by many to be the most violent militant group from the southern Philippines. But earlier this year, the island declared ...

April Grant, the daughter of Philippines national Nina Rasul Grant and a Briton Frank Grant, was snatched from her home in Lamitan town on Basilan island, which is 550 miles south of the capital ...

Blanco arrived in the Philippines on February 25 ... 875 kilometers south of Manila in the island province of Basilan,” according to a report by the Union of Catholic Asian News in 1993.

COTABATO CITY— Two grade school girls drowned while swimming together at a beach in Barangay Lower Manggas, Lantawan, Basilan, on Sunday, March 2. Officials from the Basilan Disaster Risk ...

(RSM members call themselves “reverts,” on the grounds that the Philippines was predominately ... Palawan, Basilan, and neighboring islands. Both ASG and RSM are small in number, consisting ...