The 2004 tsunami devastated the community in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, and accelerated the end of the civil war in this deeply religious region. A handful of survivors, men and women, tell their ...

JAKARTA, Indonesia — A powerful earthquake rocked the Indonesian island of Sulawesi on Friday, triggering a 10-foot-tall tsunami that an official said swept away houses in at least two cities.

An August 2005 agreement enshrined that peace, with rebels handing over their weapons and Indonesia -- led by a new pro-reconciliation president -- withdrawing troops. "The tsunami made both sides ...