Philippine army embattles terrorist eleven killed

Philippine army  clashed with Muslim extremists on a southern island yesterday, where in  seven soldiers and four militants dead, the military said.

Elite rangers battled members of the Al-Qaeda-linked Abu Sayyaf group on the troubled southern island of Basilan, with three soldiers and two insurgents also wounded in the clash."Firefight is ongoing as of this report," the military statement said.this is in a series of deadly clashes in the heavily-forested island of Basilan, a stronghold of the Abu Sayyaf. This group founded in the 1990s with initial money from Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.