Topic: Indonesia
Indonesia's counter-terrorism police on Saturday arrested five people in connection with a suicide bombing of a mosque in April, a spokesman said.Heru Komarudin, a 31-year-old man, was arrested by Detatchment 88, an elite counter-terrorism police unit, at a market in central Jakarta ...
JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia authorities said on Sunday they had captured one of their four most-wanted militants in connection with two suicide-bomb attacks this year that rekindled fears of religion-related violence in the world's largest Muslim country.The suspect, identified as Beni Asri, ...
A man already on Indonesia's most wanted list in connection with a suicide attack five months ago was the bomber who blew himself up in a packed church on Sunday, according to police.Ahmad Yosepa Hayat, 31 was sitting among the Bethel Injil ...
A suicide bomber attacked a packed Indonesian church on Sunday wounding at least 27 people, some critically, and sending terrified worshippers rushing out into the streets in panic.The morning bombing in the city of Solo, in Central Java, was the latest in ...
JAKARTA (Reuters) - A suspected suicide bomber attacked a church on Indonesia's Java island on Sunday, killing himself and one other person, a police officer and a government minister said.Seventeen people were wounded in the explosion outside a Protestant church just after ...
Indonesian prosecutors on Thursday sought 12 years in jail for Abu Tholut, seen as one of the most dangerous Islamist extremists in the mainly Muslim country.Tholut, 49, was found guilty of playing a key role in the formation of a militant training ...
Indonesia has killed or captured most of the militants responsible for the 2002 Bali bombings, but it now faces new threats from second-generation jihadists inspired by the 9/11 attacks.Even before the strikes on New York and Washington on September 11, 2001, Southeast ...
Indonesian police said Friday the alleged coordinator of the 2002 Bali attacks has explained how he assembled the bombs and handed the switch to an accomplice.Umar Patek has been cooperating with police interrogators since his extradition Thursday from Pakistan, where he was ...
An alleged mastermind of the 2002 Bali bombings was extradited from Pakistan to Indonesia on Thursday, after his arrest in the town where Osama bin Laden was killed, a security official said.Indonesia's counter-terrorism agency chief Ansyaad Mbai confirmed that Umar Patek had ...
An alleged mastermind of the 2002 Bali bombings was extradited from Pakistan to Indonesia on Thursday, after his arrest in the town where Osama bin Laden was killed, a security official said.Senior counter-terrorism official Ansyaad Mbai confirmed to AFP that Umar Patek ...