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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 367

Abu Sayyaf

In this photo released by the Joint Task Force - Sulu, rescuers search for bodies from the site where a Philippine military C-130 plane crashed in Patikul town, Jolo province, southern Philippines on July 4, 2021. (Joint Task Force-Sulu via AP)
July 4, 2021, 11:02 am
Philippine military plane crashes, killing at least 29
Officials say 50 rescued from wreckage of C-130 transport aircraft that missed runway, failed to regain power
By Jim Gomez
Police and military secure the site of an explosion in the town of Jolo, Sulu province southern Philippines on August 24, 2020. (AP Photo/Nickee Butlangan)
August 24, 2020, 3:10 pm
14 killed, 75 wounded in bomb attacks in south Philippines
Deadly motorcycle explosive followed by a suicide bombing appear to have targeted soldiers; military blames Islamic State-linked Abu Sayyaf
By Jim Gomez
In this photo provided by WESMINCOM Armed Forces of the Philippines, a soldier views the site inside a Roman Catholic cathedral in Jolo, the capital of Sulu province in the southern Philippines after two bombs exploded January 27, 2019. (WESMINCOM Armed Forces of the Philippines Via AP)
January 27, 2019, 6:20 am
Bombs kill at least 20 during Mass in Philippines cathedral
Attack at Our Lady of Mount Carmel occurs on Jolo island, long targeted by Abu Sayyaf terror organization; 81 people injured in twin blasts
By Agencies
Philippine police officers stand beside bodies of victims after an explosion at a night market that has left about 14 people dead and wounded several others in southern Davao city, Philippines late Friday Sept. 2, 2016 (AP/Manman Dejeto)
September 3, 2016, 8:51 am
Philippine president declares ‘state of lawlessness’ after bomb kills 14
Abu Sayyaf extremists claim responsibility for attack at a night market in Davao, hometown of Rodrigo Duterte
By MANUEL CAYON and Jim Gomez
John Ridsdel (left) was one of two Canadians kidnapped in September 2015 and held hostage by the Islamist Abu Sayyaf group in the Philippines. His severed head was found in the southern Philippines, Canadian authorities confirmed on April 25, 2016, after a deadline for a ransom payment was missed. (Screenshot/Global Toronto)
April 26, 2016, 1:51 am
Canadian man decapitated by Philippine extremists
John Ridsdel was one of two Canadian hostages of Abu Sayyaf terror group; PM Trudeau condemns ‘heinous act’
By Jim Gomez
In this May 30, 2013, file photo, Kayla Mueller is shown after speaking to a group in Prescott, Ariz. The wife of a former senior leader of the Islamic State has been charged in federal court with contributing to the death of Mueller. The Justice Department on Feb. 8, 2016 announced charges against 25-year-old Nisreen Assad Ibrahim Bahar, who's also known as Umm Sayyaf. (AP Photo/The Daily Courier, Jo. L. Keener, File)
February 9, 2016, 11:00 am
Islamic State wife charged in death of US aid worker Mueller
Kayla Mueller ‘used for sex’ by IS leader al-Baghdadi, wife of IS oil minister contributed to her death, says US Justice Department
By AP
Barack Obama, accompanied by, rear, from left, National Security Adviser Susan Rice, Secretary of State John Kerry, and US Ambassador to the UN Samantha Power, right, listens as Iraqi PM Haider al-Abadi, seated next to Obama, speaks at a summit on IS at the UN in New York on Sept. 29, 2015. (AP/Andrew Harnik)
December 2, 2015, 2:45 pm
Foreign troops not needed to fight IS, says Iraqi PM
Statement follows US decision to send special forces to battle jihadists, which Haider al-Abadi says ‘can’t be done without [Iraq’s] approval’
By Sinan Salaheddin
A member of the Iraqi security forces aims his weapon to attack Islamic State group militants on al-Houz bridge on the Euphrates river in Ramadi, 70 miles (115 kilometers) west of Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, April 24, 2015. (Photo credit: AP)
May 17, 2015, 2:35 am
US says IS head of oil operations killed in US raid in Syria
In firefight, commandos kill man identified as Abu Sayyaf and a dozen others, capture his wife, and free a slave
By Robert Burns and Sarah El Deeb
Swiss man Lorenzo Vinciguerra arrives on a stretcher at a military hospital, following his rescue from Abu Sayyaf abductors, on the southern island of Jolo, Mindanao, on December 6, 2014. (photo credit: AFP)
December 6, 2014, 4:28 pm
Swiss birdwatcher escapes Islamist captors in Philippines
Held for nearly three years, Lorenzo Vinciguerra stabs gunman in the head with machete during army assault, flees to safety
By Mynardo MACARAIG
British aid worker David Cawthorne Haines is threatened in a video released by the Islamic State (Photo credit: Youtube screen capture)
November 25, 2014, 10:24 am
UN: Islamic State got up to $45m in ransom money
More and more, terrorist groups have been using kidnappings as an important source of funds
By Edith M. Lederer
The Tulay mosque in Sulu, Philippines. (photo credit: CC BY Al Jacinto/Flickr)
June 23, 2013, 2:21 pm
Al-Qaeda-linked group abducts two in Philippines
Sisters working on film about Muslim farmers in mountainous southern region kidnapped by masked gunmen
An anti-Assad protest in London in 2011. (photo credit: CC BY-SA hood.jonathan, Flickr)
October 16, 2012, 9:35 am
France, UK detain citizens en route to join Syrian rebels
European governments fear radicalized local Muslims, trained in foreign conflicts, could return to stage attacks at home
By Lori Hinnant
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