Since the Jan. 27 cathedral bombing on the island of Jolo, the Philippine military has responded with airstrikes and 10,000 soldiers in Jolo, according to Col. Gerry Besana, spokesman for the ...

Jolo, known as an Abu Sayyaf stronghold but also home to other Muslim guerrilla groups, is about 560 miles (900 kilometers) south of the capital, Manila.

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. When a ...

J O L O, Philippines, Sept. 16 -- Philippine bomber planes pounded Muslim rebel bases on the island of Jolo at dawn today, marking the start of a long-anticipated assault on the guerrillas holding ...

The Battle of Jolo, also called The Burning of Jolo, was a significant but often overlooked event in the country’s history in that it was the strongest resistance against the martial regime of ...

Jolo - Eight members of the Abu Sayyaf group were killed in two separate clashes on Jolo Island, the Philippine military said on Tuesday. The rebels, who are fighting for an independent Islamic ...

On Jolo, there’s a recently completed replica of the Astana Darul Jambangan, or Palace of Flowers, where the Sulu sultanate commanded a powerful Muslim state centuries before the arrival of ...

For a long time, the island of Jolo, one of the southernmost points of the Philippines archipelago, was off limits. It was the stronghold of one of the most violent terrorist movements in the ...

MANILA, Philippines — The Ministry of Transportation and Communications of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) turned over infrastructure projects in Jolo to further ...

JOLO Winery & Vineyards: JW and Kristen Ray opened JOLO in 2013, naming it after their children Joey and Logan. This year marks its 10th harvest.

I FINALLY tracked down this book that I had heard about. It is the biography of Virginia Garcia Dominguez, born in Jolo in 1923, written by Nelson Navarro and fittingly titled Born in Jolo. It was ...