2017 Bohol clash
| 2017 Bohol clashes | |||||||
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| Part of the Moro conflict | |||||||
 Pump boats used by Abu Sayyaf in the Bohol attack |
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| Belligerents | |||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
 Rodrigo Duterte Oscar T. Lactao Noli G. Taliño |
 Muammar Askali †Abu Rami Joselito Melloria †Abu Alih |
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| Units involved | |||||||
 Philippine Army Philippine Navy Philippine Air Force Philippine National Police
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Marakat Ansar Battalion (ASG) |
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| Strength | |||||||
| 1,000+ | 11 militants | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
| 4 killed, 2 wounded | 11 killed | ||||||
| 2 civilians killed, 425–700 individuals evacuated; more than a thousand displaced. | |||||||
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
The 2017 Bohol clashes were armed conflicts that took place in April and May 2017 between Philippine security forces and Moro ISIL-affiliated militants led by members of the Abu Sayyaf in Inabanga, Bohol, Philippines. Three Philippine Army soldiers, a policeman, four terrorists and two civilians were killed during the initial firefight. Subsequent firefights between the remaining militants and security forces resulted in the deaths of all the Abu Sayyaf insurgents. A ranking police officer linked to Abu Sayyaf out to rescue some insurgents was arrested.
The clashes marked the first recorded operation of the Abu Sayyaf group in the Visayas region of the Philippines, far from their strongholds in the Sulu Archipelago.
Five days before the initial incident, the Armed Forces of the Philippines had detected the departure of a group of Abu Sayyaf from Indanan, Sulu bound for the Central Visayas. On 9 April 2017, the US Embassy in Manila issued a travel warning based on "credible" reports of kidnapping threats. A day before the first firefight, the AFP received reports of the presence of eleven armed men in three pump boats entering the Inabanga River in Bohol.
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