The Philippine military said it killed a man who is on the FBI most-wanted terror list and two other senior militants Thursday in a predawn airstrike on a remote southern island.
Authorities found weapons, explosives and jihadist materials at an Islamic school in central Indonesia after a three-day standoff, police said Thursday.
An Indonesian court sentenced radical cleric Abu Bakar Bashir to 15 years in prison on Thursday.
Indonesia is on high alert for the holiest period on the Christian calendar after police found a bomb near a church in a Jakarta suburb.
A recent suicide bombing at a police station mosque in Indonesia is an example of a new shift in terror attacks there and this new style of attackers could become very dangerous if the country does not address the trend, the International Crisis Group says.
Australian authorities issued a warning Friday to its citizens who may be traveling to Indonesia that the recent arrest of a terror suspect could lead to terror attacks there.
Police in Indonesia have sent a team to confirm that Pakistan has arrested a top suspect in the Bali bombings that killed more than 200 people in 2002, a top Indonesian police official told CNN Wednesday.
An Indonesian court ruled Thursday that prosecutors can proceed with their case against a radical Indonesian cleric who has been indicted on seven terrorism charges.
A radical Indonesian cleric was indicted Monday on seven terrorism charges in the South Jakarta District Court.
Indonesia's latest attempt to charge a fiery Islamic cleric on terrorism charges was swiftly adjourned moments after it started in a south Jakarta court Thursday.
Last week's bus bombing in the Philippines highlights how bomb-making techniques brought into the country by al Qaeda and its associate groups can be harnessed by multiple interests.
Indonesian police killed five suspected terrorists and captured a sixth in a pair of raids in Jakarta and a nearby town, a police spokesman said Wednesday.
The suspected mastermind behind the deadly Bali bombings in 2002 has been killed by Indonesian police, Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said Wednesday.
Indonesian authorities killed the suspected mastermind behind the deadly 2002 Bali bombings, Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said on Wednesday.
The U.S. Embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia, warned Thursday of an indication of an attack to Bali on New Year's Eve.
Indonesian police confirm most-wanted militant Noordin Top was killed in a police raid.
Indonesian police say they have DNA evidence identifying the man they killed this week as Noordin Top, the nation's most-wanted terror suspect.
Indonesian forces says they have killed the country's most-wanted terror suspect in an overnight raid, dealing a major blow to an al Qaeda-linked network blamed for some of Southeast Asia's deadliest terror attacks.
A group claiming to be the Indonesian arm of the al Qaeda terrorist network is purportedly taking responsibility for a pair of deadly bombs that exploded within minutes of each other at two luxury hotels in Jakarta.
Authorities investigating the twin hotel bombings in Jakarta have found the remains of another person and think a notorious Malaysian-born militant fugitive may be behind the assault, police said Saturday.
CNN contributor Tom Fuentes discusses what group may be responsible for the Indonesia bombings.
A police raid averted an assassination plot against Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, authorities said, as they waited for official DNA confirmation of the death of suspected terrorist Noordin M. Top in another raid.
A bomb discovered in an 18th floor room of a luxury hotel in Indonesia was armed and timed to detonate before two other fatal bombs exploded far below, police said Friday.
Indonesian police have taken in for questioning one of the wives of southeast Asia's most-wanted terrorist. But the woman didn't know she was married to the alleged terror mastermind Noordin M. Top, her lawyer said Thursday.
Indonesian investigators and police sift through the rubble of Jakarta's two terror bombings. CNN's Dan Rivers reports
Indonesian police have recovered a laptop they believe belonged to one of the bombers of Friday's hotel attacks in Jakarta, the country's official news agency said Sunday, although police would not confirm the report to CNN.
An eyewitness tells what he saw after a bomb tore through two hotels in Jakarta, Indonesia.
Indonesia is no stranger to bombings such as the one that rocked two luxury hotels in Jakarta on Friday.
A terrorism suspect -- whose 2008 escape from Singapore launched a global manhunt -- has been arrested in Malaysia, according to authorities there.
Firefighters extinguished a massive blaze at a fuel depot in the Indonesian capital Monday morning after a day-long fire burned hundreds of thousands of gallons of gasoline.
A tank in the Indonesian capital's sole fuel depot has caught fire, belching billowing black clouds of smoke into the air as millions of gallons of fuel blazed.
The bodies of three men executed for the bombing Bali nightclub have been returned to their villages. CNN's Dan Rivers reports.
Three men executed for the deadly 2002 bombings of two nightclubs in Bali, Indonesia, were buried Sunday, before hundreds of emotional supporters.
Police in Indonesia arrested five suspected militants Tuesday who they said were planning to attack a major fuel depot in Jakarta.
An alleged terrorist leader suspected of plotting the bombing of a Philippine superferry more than four years ago, killing at least 116 people, has arrived in Manila after his arrest in Bahrain, a Philippine justice official said Saturday.
Indonesian police have arrested 12 suspected militants who were planning to attack an area frequented by tourists, authorities said Thursday.
An Indonesian court has sentenced two leaders of the militant group Jemaah Islamiyah, to 15 years behind bars
An Indonesian court has sentenced the alleged military commander of an al Qaeda-linked terror network to 15 years in prison.
Two top leaders of an al Qaeda-linked terror network are in the custody of Indonesian police following their arrest in Malaysia, authorities said Tuesday.
A suspected terror leader has fled from a detention center in Singapore after asking to use the toilet, Home Affairs Minister Wong Kan Seng has admitted.
I thought it was a joke when I first got the e-mail. CNN's Jakarta producer contacted me to say that the recently captured Indonesian terrorist suspect, Abu Dujana, was willing to do an interview. I felt like saying "Yes, well let's see if Osama's available too, and we can see if we can get them on Larry King as a double act."
Militants will continue to target Westerners on the streets of Indonesia as they fight to impose full Islamic law, an accused terror leader told CNN.
Militants will continue to target Westerners on the streets of Indonesia as they fight to impose full Islamic law, an accused terror leader told CNN.
Indonesian police said Friday that one of a group of suspected terrorists seized in a raid is the head of Jemaah Islamiyah -- the al-Qaeda-linked terror network blamed for attacks including the deadly Bali bombings.
One of Southeast Asia's most wanted terrorists is in police custody, an anti-terror police official in Indonesia has told CNN.
Fourteen al Qaeda prisoners in CIA custody have been transferred to the U.S. prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, for trial before a military tribunal, President Bush said in a speech Wednesday.
Controversial Muslim cleric Abu Bakar Ba'asyir has been released after 26 months in an Indonesian jail Wednesday, completing his prison sentence for giving his blessing to the 2002 Bali nightclub bombings that killed more than 200 people.
Shortly after 9/11, al Qaeda began planning to use shoe bombers to hijack a commercial airplane and fly it into the tallest building in Los Angeles, California, President Bush said Thursday.
The U.S. Embassy in the Philippines capital of Manila said Tuesday it was closing temporarily to the public due to "plausible threat information."
One of Southeast Asia's most-wanted militants is believed to have blown himself up, but Indonesian police said they won't know for sure until DNA tests are done.
Indonesian police are searching for five men from the far western Javanese province of Banten over suspected involvement in Saturday's deadly bombings on the holiday island of Bali.
Police hunting the masterminds behind suicide bombings in Bali that killed 19 people and injured at least 132 others have shown photos of the bombers' severed heads.
A regional terrorism expert has called on Indonesia to outlaw Jemaah Islamiyah, the militant Islamic organization widely believed to be behind the weekend terror attacks in Bali.
Security was tightened across Indonesia Sunday after suicide bombers detonated a string of explosions at tourist hot-spots on the island of Bali, killing 19 and injuring at least 132.
Terrorists brought death to Indonesia's Bali paradise for the second time in three years, as blasts killed at least 26 people at two resort spots packed with tourists.
Thirty people were wounded, five seriously, when a bomb exploded Sunday on a ferry in the southern Philippines, a military spokesman said.
From monitoring its hazardous waste to keeping track of all computer activity, Singapore is one of the most security-conscious places in the world.
Bomb blasts have struck the main airport, a department store and a hotel in Thailand's south, killing at least two people and wounding several dozen, officials said, in attacks that raised concerns that Muslim insurgents are expanding their field of operations.
Australian and American citizens have been warned to postpone all but essential travel to the Philippines because of fears of terrorist attacks.
Australia and the U.S. have expressed disappointment at the 30-month jail sentence handed to Muslim cleric Abu Bakar Ba'asyir for his part in the Bali bombing.
An Indonesian court has sentenced cleric Abu Bakar Ba'asyir to 30 months in jail for involvement in the 2002 Bali nightclub bombings that killed 202 people.
Westerners are under fresh threats of terrorist attacks in Indonesia according to the British Foreign Office, wire services report.
A Jakarta court has ruled that the terror trial of radical Indonesian cleric Abu Bakar Ba'asyir can go ahead, despite earlier doubts on the strength of the charges.
Indonesian police have announced the arrest of four terror suspects wanted over the September 9 suicide blast outside the Australian Embassy in Jakarta, which killed 10 people.
Radical Indonesian cleric Abu Bakar Ba'asyir has lashed out in court at his accusers, saying the charges against him are a "joke" and "laughable."
Newly elected Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono faces immense challenges -- from fixing the economy to stopping religious and separatist conflicts and dealing with al Qaeda linked militants.
Australian Prime Minister John Howard has downplayed an early revival of a defense pact with Indonesia, preferring instead to focus on what he calls the "huge achievement" of a peaceful presidential election in Australia's northern neighbor.
Australia may try to negotiate a new defense and security treaty with Indonesia, Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said Sunday.
Indonesians are voting for the first time to elect their nation's president and vice president.
Indonesian police have detained 10 people for questioning, four of them are believed to be linked to the suicide car bombing in front of the Australian Embassy that killed nine people and wounded more than 180 others, National Police Chief Dai Bachtiar said Saturday.
Indonesian police have released a man and his wife they had detained on suspicion of possible involvement in the Australian embassy bombing in Jakarta last week, according to an Australia media report Friday.
After eight months of campaigning centered largely on personality, security issues could become a key factor in Indonesia's presidential election.
Indonesian police have released a security-camera video that captures the moment a suicide bomb exploded outside the Australian Embassy in Jakarta on Thursday.
Indonesian police received a text message warning of an attack on a Western embassy less than an hour before a suicide car bomber detonated in front of the Australian Embassy on Thursday, according to Australian Prime Minister John Howard.
Australia will not be intimidated, Prime Minister John Howard said, after a blast killed six people outside the gates of the nation's embassy in Jakarta.
A terror group linked to al Qaeda has purportedly taken responsibility for Thursday's car bombing in Jakarta which killed at least nine people and injured more than 180.
A powerful blast has hit Jakarta's central business district near the Australian Embassy, killing at least three people and wounding many more.
Sidney Jones has a few days to pack and leave Indonesia.
Indonesian police have re-arrested Muslim cleric Abu Bakar Ba'asyir on terrorism charges at the end of an 18 month jail term.
Indonesian investigators have questioned imprisoned Muslim cleric Abu Bakar Ba'asyir for four hours about his possible role in terror attacks in the Asian nation, but he provided little information, a spokesman for the religious leader said.
The alleged spiritual leader of terror group Jemaah Islamiyah is to be questioned by Indonesian police in a bid to link him to the October 12 Bali bombings, his lawyers say.
Voting has begun in Indonesia in an election seen as a crucial test of President Megawati Sukarnoputri's bid to continue leading the world's largest Muslim nation for the next five years.
The Australian government has been forced again to hose down fears that its close ties to the Bush administration has increased the nation's risk of terrorist attack.
The Australian government is boosting funding to its intelligence community amid fears the nation's terror risk profile is increasing.
Australia's conservative government is battling to counter growing fears its support for the U.S.-led war in Iraq has increased the nation's profile as a terrorism target.
An Indonesian court has slashed in half the jail term for imprisoned Muslim cleric Abu Bakar Ba'asyir to 18 months, court officials say.
Indonesia has arrested a Malaysian over last year's bombing of the J.W. Marriott Hotel in Jakarta but kept his detention secret, police say.
A Belfast man was charged Wednesday by police in Northern Ireland with two counts of making funds and property available for international terrorism.
Four people were killed and three injured after a bomb ripped through a busy karaoke cafe on the central Indonesian island of Sulawesi.
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