A New Zealand pilot taken hostage in West Papua says his life is in danger amid a wave of Indonesian air strikes on the area where he is being held. “Indonesia military have been dropping bombs in the ...
New Zealand has urged rebels in Indonesia's West Papua region to release a pilot they abducted last year to leverage him to broker independence from the mainland. Philip Mehrtens, 37, was ...
A New Zealand pilot has been taken hostage by separatist fighters after setting fire to a plane carrying six passengers in Indonesia’s remote Papua region. Fighters from the West Papua ...
New Zealand pilot Phillip Mehrtens is alive and healthy, a spokesperson for the West Papua National Liberation Army says. He ...
The New Zealander was taken hostage more than a year ago on February 7 in Paro in the highlands of the Indonesian-ruled ...
Indonesia's military has denied using air strikes in a remote, restive part of the country after a video of a New Zealand ...
Indonesia’s military on Saturday denied using air strikes in a remote, restive part of the country, after a video of a New ...
JAKARTA--Indonesia’s military chief on Tuesday dismissed a separatist group claim that they had killed more than a dozen government soldiers who were searching for a New Zealand pilot taken ...
esponding to a claim by the separatist West National Liberation Army (TPNPB) that aerial bombing had occurred in an area where New Zealand pilot Philip Mehrtens was taken hostage, the Indonesian ...