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

A New Zealand pilot held prisoner for more than 19 months by armed insurgents has been freed. Phillip Mehrtens was taken hostage in 2023 when he landed a small commercial plane in the remote ...

A pilot from New Zealand who was being held captive in the restive Indonesian region of West Papua has been freed. Phillip Mehrtens was kidnapped more than a year and a half ago. Indonesian police ...

The family of a kidnapped New Zealand pilot on Sunday thanked the Indonesian rebels who released him for taking care of him during more than a year and a half in captivity. Phillip Mehrtens ...

In August, gunmen stormed a helicopter and killed its New Zealand pilot, Glen Malcolm Conning ... Fund research mission in Mapenduma. Two kidnapped Indonesians were killed by their abductors.

The disappearance of a New Zealand father into the wilderness with ... In the eyes of police, Phillips is a wanted criminal. He kidnapped his own children, stripped them of stability, access ...

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — A New Zealand pilot held hostage for more than ... World Wildlife Fund research mission in Mapenduma. Two kidnapped Indonesians were killed by their abductors.

Three children and the fugitive who allegedly kidnapped them were spotted for the first time since 2021. There has been a nationwide search for Jayda, Maverick, and Ember, siblings who were last ...

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Separatist rebels in Indonesia’s restive Papua region have warned that military attacks in recent days to rescue a New Zealand pilot who was taken hostage over a ...