Gunmen ambushed and killed six Malaysian policemen as fears grew that armed intruders from the southern Philippines had slipped into at least three coastal districts on Borneo island, officials...
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3 Mar 2013
Five Malaysian policemen and two gunmen died in a fresh clash on Borneo as fears mounted that violence linked to a deadly standoff with Filipino intruders had spread to other areas, police said on...
3 Mar 2013
Twelve followers of the little-known sultan of Sulu and two Malaysian security personnel were killed in Friday's firefight, police said, as the more than two-week-old siege in a remote corner of...
3 Mar 2013
When the Moro Islamic Liberation Front rebels signed a framework peace agreement at the Philippine presidential palace last October, 75-year-old Jamalul Kiram III was invited to represent the...
2 Mar 2013
Philippine President Benigno Aquino III has called on members and followers of a Muslim royal clan who occupied a village in the eastern Malaysian state of
Twelve followers of a self-described Philippine Sultan died in a shootout with Malaysian security forces on Friday, police said, as tensions ratcheted up in their 17-day stand-off.
Philippine President Benigno Aquino warned a sultan on Tuesday he would face the “full force of the law” if he did not end a standoff involving his armed followers in the Malaysian state of Sabah...
A Philippine navy ship was sailing to waters off eastern Malaysia on Monday to try to bring back some members of a Filipino clan who became locked in a territorial standoff after going there and...
Followers of a Philippine sultan who mysteriously arrived in the Malaysian state of Sabah this month will not leave and are reclaiming the area as their ancestral territory, the sultan said amid a...
The group claims to be followers of a former Philippine-based Islamic sultanate that once controlled parts of Borneo, including the stand-off site, and is refusing to leave Malaysian territory.
Malaysian security forces had surrounded about 100 armed men believed to be from a breakaway rebel faction in the southern Philippines, Malaysian police and an official said yesterday. But a...
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