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 ...

Claretian priest Bernardo Blanco lived in the Philippines for nearly 50 years after he was expelled from an African dictatorship in the 1970s ...

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 ...

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 ...