Djafaruddin says he has recovered from the trauma of collecting bodies when the world's deadliest tsunami devastated Indonesia's western coast two decades ago, but he still breaks down when thinking ...

We rode our motorbikes — my 17-year-old translator Mohammed and I — as far as we could down a rutted, muddy path to the village of Darussalam. We could see a fire a little way ahead and stopped at a ...

Just two weeks after a deadly tsunami swept across the Indian Ocean, killing more than 150,000 people and flattening large swaths of Indonesia’s Aceh province, the doors of Muhammadiyah University are ...

Under the shade of trees at a mass grave in Indonesia's Aceh province, survivors and mourners recited Islamic prayers, commemorating the deaths of tens of thousands killed when a tsunami decimated the ...

BANDA ACEH, Indonesia—Every night, Zulkarnain bin Musa sees dead bodies walking toward him in his dreams. When he wakes, the 19-year-old college student dons his rubber boots and gloves and sets out, ...

BANDA ACEH, IndonesiaBANDA ACEH, Indonesia — Thousands of people knelt in prayer in Indonesia’s Aceh province at ceremonies Thursday marking the 15th anniversary of the Indian Ocean tsunami, one of ...

BANDA ACEH, Indonesia — U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan described the devastation on tsunami-battered Sumatra island today as the worst he's ever seen, and authorities raised Indonesia's death toll ...

Indonesian soldiers unload bodies of tsunami disaster victims at a mass grave in Banda Aceh, January 13, 2005 Djafaruddin says he has recovered from the trauma of collecting bodies when the world's ...