A New Zealand pilot held hostage for more than a year in the restive Papua region of Indonesia was freed Saturday by ...

JAKARTA, Indonesia -- A New Zealand pilot held hostage for more than a year in the restive Papua region of Indonesia was ...

Separatist rebels in Indonesia’s restive Papua region have warned that military attacks in recent days to rescue a New ...

Separatist rebels in Indonesia’s Papua region caution that recent military actions to rescue a New Zealand pilot, taken ...

A New Zealand pilot held hostage for more than a year in the restive Papua region of Indonesia was freed on Saturday by ...

Phillip Mark Mehrtens, a 38-year-old pilot from Christchurch, was working for Indonesian aviation company Susi Air when he ...

Independence fighters led by Egianus Kogoya, a regional commander in the Free Papua Movement, stormed a single-engine plane ...

New Zealand pilot Phillip Mehrtens has been freed more than 19 months after being kidnapped by armed separatists in Indonesia ...

Papua was incorporated into Indonesia in 1969 under a United Nations-sponsored ballot that was widely seen as a sham.

An armed faction of the West Papua National Liberation Army (TPNPB), led by Egianus Kogoya, kidnapped Mehrtens on Feb. 7, ...

Indonesian authorities said Saturday the New Zealand pilot who’s been held hostage for more than a year in the restive Papua ...