In this episode, we explore Basilan’s rich culture, from Lamitan City’s weavers to trying Betel Nut and visiting the stunning ...

The road rehabilitation is part of the Basilan Circumferential Road Project, which Arroyo initiated to spur economic growth in Basilan and its neighbouring island provinces. Financed through a ...

Al Jazeera visited the island of Basilan in the southern Philippines – once a stronghold of the group that is branded a terrorist organisation by the US – and found a community caught in a c ...

sees the end of the Abu Sayyaf group in the island province as development comes into previously inaccesible areas. The road network will also make areas of Basilan more accessible to security forces.

Unidentified gunmen opened fire on patrolling government militias, killing two on the island of Basilan on December 24, the military said in a report yesterday. The militias were patrolling the ...

THE P1.567-billion Basilan Circumferential Road is nearing completion as the Department of Public Works and Highways has accelerated the construction of the the 47-kilometer thoroughfare in Mindanao.

ZAMBOANGA CITY, Philippines – Elite Army troops rescued unharmed in Basilan yesterday an engineer who was seized last June 3 while working on a road project in the island province, the military ...

Basilan is the largest and northernmost of the major islands of the Sulu Archipelago and is located just off the southern coast of the Zamboanga Peninsula. The island is a 30-minute boat ride from ...

The Philippine Army has killed five members of the Abu Sayyaf militant group in a gunbattle on Basilan island ... near a main road outside the capital of a remote island in the southern Philippines.

Manila : President Gloria Arroyo hailed the construction and rehabilitation of a major road undertaking in Basilan, as she said that the project will considerably improve security and bring ...