Burma is a long-forgotten battleground for religious freedom and human rights in Asia, and its turmoil is part of a broader struggle in the region.

But the waves, possibly 30 metres high as they crashed into Banda Aceh, also led to peace after almost 30 years of war. Before the tsunami, more than 15,000 people, including civilians ...

Asia is expected dominate oil and gas demand growth, a forecast that provides plenty of opportunities for ASX-listed ...

But it was Aceh, Indonesia – a province already blighted by decades of civil war – that was hardest hit, particularly the capital Banda Aceh, where waves of up to 20-30m swept through the city ...

More than 200 Rohingya came ashore over the weekend in Indonesia's Aceh province, officials said on Monday (January 6), amid ...

The return of the Pucangan Inscription is expected to be discussed during President Prabowo Subianto’s visit to India ...

The province of Aceh on the northern end of Sumatra suffered ... that brought a peaceful end to three decades of war. I will never forget what a former village chief, who lost his wife and five ...

India, Indonesia history spans centuries, with Hindu, Buddhist and later Muslim faith travelling to Indonesia from the shores ...

The Aceh sultanate was one of the last places in the archipelago to be subdued by the colonial Dutch rulers in Batavia, as Jakarta was then known as. The Acehnese fought a guerilla war that drained ...

The death toll for Indonesia’s Aceh province is generally listed at ... a similar breakthrough in Sri Lanka’s long-running civil war with the Tamil Tigers, but it was to continue for five ...

But Aceh was only just emerging from a brutal military ... “It became clear that continuing the war was unsustainable,” says Kamaruddin. “Starting in January 2005, we held several meetings ...

Iran spent billions of dollars propping up Assad during the war and deployed its Revolutionary ... came ashore over the weekend in Indonesia's Aceh province, an official said on Monday, amid ...