Examples of using Basilan in English and their translations into Vietnamese
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For the people of Basilan, not much has changed.
The group has strongholds in Jolo and Basilan.
Basilan showing the location of Lamitan.
The Yakan language is spoken mainly in Basilan Island.
Basilan' median age was 19 years, lower than the 1995 figure of 25 years.
He has been identified as Abu Sayyaf's commander on Basilan.
Basilan has a median age of 19 years, a lot lower than the 1995 median age of 25 years.
Some 400 Abu Sayyaf terrorists operate in Basilan and on nearby Jolo island and the Zamboanga peninsula.
In March 2000, Abu Sayyaf- a militant splinter from these movements-kidnapped 58 people from a Basilan school.
Basilan is the base for the Abu Sayyaf Muslim insurgents, and the island has a history of political violence.
Janjalaani was killed in December 1998 in ashootout with the Philippine police in Lamitan village on Basilan Island.
It also claimed that ISIS followers mostly in Basilan have killed 289 people since April 2015.
Abu Sayyaf, the more prominent pro-ISIS group in the Philippines,has an entrenched position on the southern islands of Sulu and Basilan.
Last week, Zamboanga City and Isabela City in Basilan declared a state of calamity, citing the high prices of rice, according to Reuters.
At the height of that operation,some 1,200 Americans were deployed to Zamboanga City and on Jolo and Basilan islands, both strongholds of Abu Sayyaf.
Islamic State is likely to create a safe haven in Basilan and mount operations from the Sulu archipelago into both the Philippines and Malaysia.".
Basilan Island is more or less 30 kilometers from the key port city of Zamboanga, where about 200 MNLF fighters have taken scores of civilians hostage since Monday.
Eighteen Philippine soldiers were killed in clashes with the militants on Basilan Island near Jolo island earlier this month.
The entire Mindanao including Basilan, Sulu and Tawi-tawi are under martial law for 60 days as stipulated in the constitution of the Philippines.
Philippine soldiers display various types of seized improvised explosives andbanners similar to those used by the Islamic State at a village in Basilan province in the southern Philippines, May 16, 2015.
Manpower: Abu Sayyaf forces in Basilan and in Zamboanga Peninsula were, by June 2003, believed to number less than 500, down from more than 1,000 a year earlier.
The video posted on January 4 showed Abu Sayyaf leader Isnilon Hapilon marching with other extremistleaders who operate from bases on the islands of Sulu and Basilan.
Resuming escort work on the 17th,she guarded mine sweepers as they cleared Basilan Strait in mid-March and then supported the occupation of the Zamboanga area.
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has ordered the military to launch an all-out offensive against the estimated 500 Abu Sayyaf terrorists operating mostly in thehinterlands of southern Philippine provinces of Sulu and Basilan.
To preempt all this,Gunaratna urged the Philippine military to deploy in strength in Sulu, Basilan and Tawi-Tawi as well as focus on winning Muslim hearts and minds to reduce ISIS support.
The crisis in Zamboanga, Basilan, Sulu and Tawi-Tawi provinces, where residents formed long queues to buy limited emergency supplies, has prompted calls for the resignation of food security officials, including Agriculture Secretary Emmanuel Pinol.
When Zamboanga City became a chartered city on October 12, 1936,it encompassed the southern tip of the Zamboanga Peninsula and the island of Basilan, making it the largest city in the world in terms of land area.
The rice crisis was declared to have ended the other day in Zamboanga City with the arrival of new rice stocks from farmers cooperatives… andthe NFA,(but) Basilan, Sulu and Tawi-Tawi are still gripped with very limited supply of rice.