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 ...

Esmail Kiram II was the self-proclaimed sultan of Sulu who encouraged a last-ditch, violent effort two years ago to regain part of the Malaysian island of Borneo for the Philippines. Although he ...

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 ...

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

Esmail Kiram II told The Associated Press that he told Interior Secretary Mar Roxas in Manila that Malaysia needed to agree to a cease-fire to allow talks aimed at resolving the weeks-long Sabah ...

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 succession ...

Esmail Kiram II told The Associated Press on Monday that in his talk with Interior Secretary Mar Roxas, he reiterated the need for Malaysia to agree to a cease-fire to allow talks aimed at ...