MANILA, PHILIPPINES >> Months before Abu Sayyaf militants beheaded retired Canadian mining executive John Ridsdel in the tropical jungles of the southern Philippines, they showed him pleading for life ...

A Canadian businessman from Calgary named John Ridsdel has been beheaded by ISIS affiliated terrorist group known as Abu Sayyaf in The Phillipines. Abu Sayyaf had kidnapped Ridsdel last September and ...

The Canadian Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, has condemned the killing of a Canadian hostage kidnapped by Islamist militants in the Philippines. John Ridsdel, 68, was taken from a tourist resort with ...

FILE - This file image made from undated militant video, shows Canadians Robert Hall, left, and John Ridsdel, right. With a black Islamic State group-style flag as a backdrop, Abu Sayyaf fighters ...