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Communist guerrillas are using a security vacuum created by the Abu Sayyaf hostage crisis in the southern Philippines to recruit new members and extend their influence, a senior military official ...

A recently dismissed security guard freed his hostages, ending a daylong hostage crisis in an upscale commercial district near the police and military headquarters.

A Dutch hostage held by Philippines militant Islamist group Abu Sayyaf has been killed as he tried to flee during a battle with troops, the army says. Ewold Horn, 59, was killed by his captors ...

destroyed houses and displaced large numbers of villagers before blowing away from the northern Philippines, worsening the crisis wreaked by multiple back-to-back storms, officials said Monday.

Robert Hall, left, a Canadian held hostage in the Philippines, was beheaded by extremist militant group Abu Sayyaf, authorities said, after the deadline to pay ransom had lapsed. Photo: AP ...