COTABATO CITY, Philippines (Corrected 9:09 p.m.) — A police sergeant shot dead the provincial police director of Sulu in Jolo town on Friday afternoon. Police Col. Michael Bawayan, 49 ...

Military officials said two bombs went off within an hour of each other in Jolo, Sulu province, on Monday. They suspect the bombings were carried out by militant Islamists linked to the Abu Sayyaf ...

COTABATO CITY, Philippines — One of the facilitators of the bombing of the Jolo cathedral last January was killed during law enforcement operations in Patikul, Sulu on Monday, the military reported.

Through the Isle of Jolo spread a familiar, deadly-chilling fear. On that speck in the Sulu Archipelago, southwesternmost part of the Philippines, the Moros were going juramentado again.