The MILF dates from 1984 as a separate organization but can trace its roots back to the beginnings of modern Muslim separatism. Its leader, Hashim Salamat, was second in command of the MNLF until 1979 ...

The Philippines, which is majority Catholic, has faced Muslim separatist movements for decades in Mindanao with its significant Muslim population. Marawi is known as "Islamic City" in the ...

a major base of the separatist Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) which was overrun by the military in central Mindanao, southern Philippines last year. An estimated 300,000 Filipino-Muslims ...

Mindanao has seen a huge amount of violence in recent years - mainly between the army, Muslim separatists and other rebels. The violence has left Mindanao one of the poorest regions in the ...

A recent spike in clashes is threatening a fragile peace between the Philippine government and Moro Muslims in Mindanao.

After September 11, the Bush administration responded forcefully to help the Philippines combat its homegrown "terrorists" -- the Muslim separatists who have turned the island of Mindanao into a ...

The Muslim Moro people of Mindanao, a minority in an overwhelmingly ... of Mindanao to be ruled semiautonomously by its largest separatist group, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), ushering ...

which began before dawn in the nearby town of Pikit in the southern island of Mindanao on Saturday, is still raging and threatens to spill over into territory claimed by a Muslim separatist rebel ...

to Mindanao from 1971 to 1981 during the bloody Muslim separatist movement there. Both of these destructive wars were rooted in religious conflicts -- Catholics vs. Protestants in Europe ...

Then the COVID-19 pandemic hit. Establishing the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) is only the start of the path to peace.