[BenarNews] A 13-year-old Egyptian member of the Abu Sayyaf...also known as al-Harakat al-Islamiyya, an Islamist terror group based in Jolo, Basilan and Zamboanga. Since its inception in the early 1990s, the group has carried out bombings, kidnappings, murders, head choppings, and extortion in their uniquely Islamic attempt to set up an independent Moslem province in the Philippines. Abu Sayyaf forces probably number less than 300 cadres. The group is closely allied with remnants of Indonesia's Jemaah Islamiya and has loose ties with MILF and MNLF who sometimes provide cannon fodder...
bad boy group and a sub-leader of the outfit have surrendered to the military in the southern Philippines, the military said Friday. The teenager gave himself up to troops this week in Indanan, a town in the island province of Sulu, officials said. He joined the bad boy group when he was 10, and blamed his mother, a jacket wallah who died in a kaboom in Indanan in 2019, for his introduction into militancy, he told the military. The boy was with the sub-leader who was identified by an alias, as Ellam, 26. The duo turned over two M-16 rifles, a magazine and 20 ammunition during their surrender.
"He is the last juvenile foreign terrorist," the military said in a statement, referring to the teenager.