Tribal violence and claims of ‘cannibalism’ in Papua New Guinea have marked the start of 2025 for the Pacific nation as it prepares to celebrate its 50th anniversary of independence. Nine people were ...

Hundreds of residents in Indonesia’s restive Papua region have sought shelter in a church after clashes between security forces and Papuan independence fighters left two insurgents, a soldier and a ...

One day in early April 2012, a Philippine naval surveillance plane spotted eight Chinese fishing boats inside Scarborough Shoal, a triangular chain of reefs around 125 nautical miles (232 kilometers) ...

A Philippine court convicted four police officers Tuesday for killing a father and his son in 2016, putting the total number of police successfully prosecuted for their involvement in former President ...

The Filipino military said Wednesday that it had identified the Islamic State extremist group’s new emir for Southeast Asia as the leader of a local militant faction being targeted in an offensive ...

Seven years after Islamic State militants laid siege to the southern Philippine city of Marawi, tens of thousands of residents remain displaced in squalid villages on the outskirts of the war-torn ...

Dozens of protesters took to the streets in Indonesia’s Papua region on Wednesday, a day after the military killed three people it claimed were armed pro-independence fighters. The military said its ...

Military officials in Indonesia’s restive Papua region said Friday they were verifying the authenticity of a video that has gone viral and appears to show Indonesian servicemen beating and cutting ...

At least 17 people – mostly suspected Islamic militants – were killed during heavy fighting between government forces and BIFF insurgents in the southern Philippines at the weekend, the military said ...

Indonesia is going ahead with a project to convert millions of acres in Papua into a gigantic sugarcane plantation so it can become self-sufficient in sugar and its related liquid fuel, bioethanol.

Pro-Islamic State Filipino militants carried out more attacks in Maguindanao province in the southern Philippines, injuring two pro-government militia members and a civilian, the military said Friday.

In an interview with BenarNews, Philippine opposition Sen. Risa Hontiveros defended her controversial bill that seeks to address teenage pregnancy through a comprehensive sex education campaign, amid ...