July 2nd, 2026 - 02:50 GMT
ALBAWABA- Separatist rebels in Indonesia's Highland Papua province claimed responsibility on Thursday for killing an American pilot and setting his civilian aircraft ablaze after it landed in the remote Yahukimo region, in the latest escalation of the decades-long insurgency in Papua. The armed wing of the West Papua independence movement, the West Papua National Liberation Army (TPNPB), said its fighters shot American pilot Nicholas F. Gosselin after his aircraft landed ...