List of local Terrorist in the Philippines

1. Abu Sayyaf (/ˈɑːbuː sɑːˈjɑːf/ (About this sound listen); Arabic: ‫;جماعة أبو سياف‬
Jamāʿat Abū Sayyāf, ASG; Filipino: Grupong Abu Sayyaf),[24] unofficially known
as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant – Philippines Province, is a Jihadist
militant and pirate group that follows the Wahhabi doctrine of Sunni Islam. It is
based in and around Jolo and Basilan islands in the southwestern part of the
Philippines, where for more than four decades, Moro groups have been engaged
in an insurgency seeking to make the province independent. The group is
considered violent [25] and was responsible for the Philippines' worst terrorist
attack, the bombing of Superferry 14 in 2004, which killed 116 people.[26] The
name of the group is derived from the Arabic abu (Arabic: ‫"( )أبو‬father of"), and
sayyaf (Arabic: ‫"( )سيّاف‬swordsmith").[27] As of 2012, the group was estimated to
have between 200 and 400 members,[28] down from 1,250 in 2000.[10] They
use mostly improvised explosive devices, mortars and automatic rifles.

2. The Maute Group ([mɐʔutɪ] or [mɐʔute̞]), also known as the Islamic State of
Lanao, is a radical Islamist group composed of former Moro Islamic Liberation
Front guerrillas and foreign fighters led by Abdullah Maute, the alleged founder of
a Dawlah Islamiya, or Islamic state based in Lanao del Sur, Mindanao,
Philippines.[4][5][6][7] The group, which a Philippine Army brigade commander
characterized as terrorist,[8] had been conducting a protection racket[7] in the
remote settlements of Butig, Lanao del Sur. It had clashed on several occasions
with Armed Forces of the Philippines troops, the most significant of which began
in May 2017 and culminated in the Battle of Marawi.

3. The New People's Army (NPA) (Filipino: Bagong Hukbong Bayan) is the armed
wing of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP). It was formed and
founded by Bernabe Buscayno ("Commander Dante") and Lucio Manlapaz on
March 29, 1969. The Maoist NPA conducts its armed guerrilla struggle based on
the strategical line of protracted people's war.[citation needed] The Philippine
Army estimated the NPA's strength at 3,200 fighters at the end of 2015.[5]

Until 1992, the Philippine government has treated the NPA along with the CPP as an
illegal organization. The Anti-Subversion Act of 1957 which outlawed the group was
lifted during the administration of Fidel V. Ramos. The NPA continued to operate. It was
in 2011, that peace talks resumed.
The NPA collects revolutionary taxes, mostly from businesses, in the areas where it
operates.[6] The Communist Party of the Philippines refers to the NPA as "the tax
enforcement agency of the people's revolutionary government".[7] In 2014, Lieutenant
Colonel Ramon Zagala, speaking for the Armed Forces of the Philippines said "[the
communist rebels] have lost their ideological mooring and now engaged in extortion
[activities].

4.The Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF; Arabic: ‫ جبهة تحرير مورو اإلسالمية‬Jabhat Taḥrīr
Moro al-ʾIslāmiyyah) is a group based in Mindanao, Philippines seeking an autonomous
region of the Moro people from the central government.[3] The group has a presence in
the Bangsamoro region of Mindanao, the Sulu Archipelago, Palawan, Basilan, and other
neighbouring islands.[4]

The armed wing of the group is the Bangsamoro Islamic Armed Forces (BIAF)[5]
although the name of the parent organization is often used to refer to BIA

The Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) is a Moro and Lumad group formed in 1969
following the Jabidah massacre which happened in 1968 to achieve greater
Bangsamoro autonomy in the southern Philippines.[6] The MNLF took part in terrorist
attacks and assassinations to achieve their goals.[7][8] The government in Manila sent
troops into the southern Philippines to control the insurgency. In 1976, Libyan leader
Muammar Gaddafi brokered a negotiation between the Philippine government and
MNLF Leader Nur Misuari which led to the signing of the MNLF-GRPH Tripoli
Agreement of 1976 wherein the MNLF accepted the Philippine government's offer of
semi-autonomy of the regions in dispute.