An armed woman shot dead at Indonesia's national police headquarters Wednesday was an Islamic State (IS) sympathiser, authorities said, citing social media posts she made shortly before the fatal gun battle.Indonesia has been on high alert in recent days after two suicide bombers - alleged members of a pro-IS extremist group - blew themselves up at a church in Makassar city on Sulawesi island, wounding about 20 people.Police outposts have been frequent targets of Indonesian extremists in

Two suicide bombers who attacked an Indonesian cathedral on Palm Sunday were newlyweds who joined a pro-Islamic State extremist group, police said Monday, as they arrested others suspected in the plot.About 20 people were wounded in the powerful explosion outside the church in Makassar city on Sulawesi island while worshippers celebrated the start of Holy Week.Both suspects were killed instantly after they rode a motorbike into the church compound and, when challenged by security, detonated a

One of two suicide bombers who attacked an Indonesian cathedral on Sunday belonged to a pro-Islamic State extremist group blamed for other church bombings in Indonesia and the Philippines, said Listyo Sigit Prabowo, the police chief.“The perpetrator was part of the JAD group that had carried out the bombing in Jolo, the Philippines,” said the police chief, referring to extremist network Jamaah Ansharut Daulah.The bomb used in Sunday's attack was a pressure cooker bomb, Prabowo a

Until the other day, few Americans could likely find Sri Lanka on a map, nor even dimly remember its British colonial name, Ceylon. But the Indian Ocean nation flashed across news screens over the Easter weekend with a highly sophisticated and lethal series of bombings across the island nation of some 20 million.