Malaysia has decided to extend the maritime curfew in the waters off seven districts in the Eastern Sabah Security Zone (ESSZone), according to Malaysia’s news agency Bernama.
The Philippine military said 3 people, including a soldier, were killed and 7 other soldiers wounded when government forces clashed with some 30 Abu Sayyaf fighters in the jungles of Sulu province in the southern Philippines on August 29.
At least 15 people were killed and 75 others wounded in twin explosions that rocked the southern Philippine province of Sulu on August 24, accoring to the latest announcement of the local military and police.
Philippine security forces on June 26 killed four suspected militants with links to the Abu Sayyaf during a pre-dawn raid in Parañaque city of Metro Manila.
Philippine authorities said on June 14 that two policemen have been killed and two others wounded after suspected Abu Sayyaf extremists attacked a police station in a remote town in the southern province of Sulu.
The Philippine military said on April 17 that 11 soldiers were killed and 14 others were wounded in an hour-long clash with Abu Sayyaf militants in the remote southern province of Sulu the same day.
Philippine forces rescued two of three Indonesian hostages after a gunbattle with their captors from the Muslim militant group Abu Sayyaf on Jolo island, the Philippines’s Sulu province on December 22.
At least six suspected terrorists were killed in two days of fighting between the Philippine troops and Abu Sayyaf militant group over the weekend in the Southern city of Sulu, said the Philippine military on November 25.
Malaysian police have arrested four foreigners on suspicion of being involved in militant groups, Inspector-General of Police Abdul Hamid Bador said on July 9.
A Philippine militant was suspected of carrying out an apparent suicide bombing last week in the southern Philippines, Major General Cirilito Sobejana said on July 2.
Ten Malaysian fishermen were kidnapped by suspected Islamic State-linked militants off Borneo island on June 18 and were taken to the southern Philippines, local police said.
Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines have agreed to hold a joint land patrol exercise next month to tackle security challenges in the waters between Borneo island and the southern Philippines.
Four government soldiers and four Maute group militants have been killed in a clash in the southern Philippines, the Philippine military said on March 15.
The Philippine governmenthas vowed to destroythose behind twin bombings that killed 27 people and injured nearly 80 others during a church service in the country's south on January 27.
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has approved "in principle" the recommendation made by security forces to place southern Mindanao island under martial law for another year, the country’s defense chief said on December 5.
Eight people were arrested by Malaysian police for their alleged involvement in terrorism between October 30 and November 12, according to a recent announcement of the local police.