The group's professed mission is to establish an independent Islamic state in the southern Philippines, governed by Sharia law.
The group is notorious for high-profile kidnappings of foreign tourists, Christian missionaries, and locals to fund its operations. abu sayyaf
Founded in the early 1990s by Abdurajak Abubakar Janjalani , a former Islamic scholar who fought in the Soviet-Afghan War. The group's professed mission is to establish an
The is a jihadist militant and pirate organization based in the southern Philippines, primarily in the Sulu Archipelago and Mindanao. Officially known by the Islamic State as the Islamic State – East Asia Province , its name translates from Arabic as "father of the swordsmith". Origin and Mission abu sayyaf