Arraiolos Group is an informal meeting of presidents of parliamentary and semi-presidential European Union member states. ASEAN+3: the ASEAN countries, plus China, Japan, and the Republic of Korea (South Korea). [4] ASEAN+5: the ASEAN countries with Japan, India, Australia, South Korea and New Zealand. ASEAN+6 along with China. [5][6][7][8]

Abu Sayyaf (/ ˈ ɑː b uː s ɑː ˈ j ɑː f / ⓘ; Arabic: جماعة أبو سياف; Jamāʿat Abū Sayyāf, ASG), [26] officially known by the Islamic State as the Islamic State – East Asia Province, [27] was a Jihadist militant and pirate group that followed the Wahhabi doctrine of Sunni Islam.

The Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) is an Islamic separatist organization based in the southern Philippines. It seeks an independent Islamic state for the Filipino Muslim minority, known as the Moro people, who live primarily in the Philippines’ Mindanao region.

The Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) is a Philippines-based Islamic extremist organization with historical links to al-Qa‘ida. The group formed in 1991 when it splintered from the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, an insurgent group that made peace with the Philippine Government in 2014.

Mar 5, 2025 · During 2016, the Philippines-based Islamist extremist Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) changed its long-established kidnapping tactics. Having focused largely on onshore abductions of local nationals since its inception in the 1990s, some sub-commanders of the group increasingly took to the southern Sulu and northern Celebes Seas as they sought to target ...

Jul 30, 2022 · The Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) is an Islamist terrorist organization that seeks to establish an independent Islamic state in the southern Philippines. ASG is known for kidnapping innocents, including Westerners, for ransom, and beheading captives if …

The Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) is the most violent of the Islamic separatist groups operating in the southern Philippines and claims to promote an independent Islamic state in western Mindanao and the Sulu Archipelago.

Feb 18, 2025 · Sixteenth-century Spanish colonizers spread Christianity to the northern islands, treating the Muslims as a despised minority, and the area has seen periodic violence ever since. The people of the southern islands are among the poorest in the country.

Nov 28, 2011 · Founded in the early 1990s as a Filipino Muslim (Moro) terrorist organization, the Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) emerged as a more violent Islamist alternative to the stagnated political movements of the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) and …

Jan 7, 2024 · The Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) is an Islamic separatist organization founded in 1991 by Abdurajak Abubakar Janjalani. Janjalani, who was influenced by Al-Qaeda , formed the ASG as a splinter group of the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) with the aim of establishing an independent Muslim state in the southern Philippines .