Sultan Esmail Kiram II died Saturday at a hospital in southern Zamboanga city. He was 76. He left an order for his followers to pursue a claim to Sabah state in neighboring Malaysia, according to ...

Esmail Kiram II, who has died aged 75, was the self-proclaimed Sultan of Sulu, a tiny archipelago province of the Philippines that, in 2013, staged an invasion of the Malaysian enclave of Sabah on ...

Sultan Esmail Kiram II died at age 76 late Saturday at a hospital in the southern Philippines. According to spokesman Abraham Idjirani, he left an order for his sultanate to pursue a claim to ...

Kiram’s family said he would be buried in his hometown of Maimbung in Sulu. He had eight children with two wives and will likely be replaced by a younger brother, Esmail Kiram II, in a ...

the nine principal heirs of Sultan Jamalul Kiram II were Datu Punjungan Kiram, Datu Esmail Kiram, Dayang Dayang Piandao Kiram, Dayang Dayang Sitti Rada Kiram, Princess Tarhata Kiram, Princess ...

Abraham Idjirani, a clan spokesman, said in a telephone interview. He will be succeeded by brother Bantilan Esmail Kiram, Idjirani said.

Sultan Bantillan Esmael Kiram, brother of Jamalul, met yesterday with Interior and Local Government Secretary Mar Roxas to find a face-saving end to the hostilities in Sabah. Esmael said that his ...

Roxas and Bantilan Esmail Kiram II met for nearly two hours in Camp Crame, Quezon City, on Monday, March 11. The two refused to divulge specifics of their discussion, saying the details will first ...

Kiram’s family said he would be buried in his hometown of Maimbung in Sulu. He had eight children with two wives and will likely be replaced by a younger brother, Esmail Kiram II, in a ...