ಅರ್ಥ : A small gang of terrorist thugs claiming to seek a separate Islamic state for the Muslim minority in the Philippines. Uses bombing and assassination and extortion and kidnapping.
ಉದಾಹರಣೆ :
In 2001 Abu Sayyaf kidnapped twenty people and beheaded one of the American captives.
ಸಮಾನಾರ್ಥಕ : abu sayyaf