The Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) was created around 1971 from a group of young Philippine Muslims who had undergone guerrilla training in Malaysia. It became the leading political organization in the Muslim insurgency against the Philippine...

(b. 1940), Philippine Muslim political leader. Nuruladji Misuari is the founding chairman of the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF), and was, from 1996 to 2001, governor of the Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao (ARMM). He is a Tausug Muslim from...

The Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) was formed in the Philippines in 1977 as a breakaway from the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF). Its leader, Hashim Salamat, at the time accused MNLF chairman Nur Misuari of autocratic leadership, Communist...

The Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) is a Muslim separatist rebel group located in Southern Philippines.[1] The area where the group is active is called Bangsamoro by the MILF and it covers the southern portion of Mindanao, the Sulu Archipelago,...

Militant groups come and --eventually--go in the Philippines. Right now, about 1,000 American troops are on the impoverished southern island of Mindanao, doing engineering work and trying to hunt down members of Abu Sayyaf, the small but nasty terrorist group that's been kidnapping...

MANILA THE Philippine army captured Camp Abubakar, in Mindanao, headquarters of the country's main Muslim secessionist guerrilla group, on July 9th. The next day President Joseph Estrada visited the camp to raise the Philippine flag, and join his Christian soldiers as they...