Helicopters reach isolated Aceh
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US helicopters start dropping food and medical supplies into parts of quake-ravaged western Aceh.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Grief swept through the  airport of this tsunami-hit Indonesian city overnight when  hundreds of Acehnese Muslims returned from the annual Haj  pilgrimage to learn they had lost children, parents and homes  to the waves.
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Leaders of the separatist Free Aceh Movement (GAM) in Indonesia&#39;s Aceh province have declared a unilateral ceasefire with Government forces after tsunamis from an underwater earthquake killed thousands in the region.
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The first survivors from the coastal region of Meulaboh were airlifted yesterday to the provincial capital of Banda Aceh, where they
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Indonesia offered talks  with separatist rebels in tsunami-hit Aceh province on  Wednesday, hoping to calm security fears for foreign relief  workers helping the disaster's victims.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - U.S. aid helicopters  stepped up missions on Tuesday to Indonesia's tsunami-hit Aceh  province, expanding help to millions affected by the giant wave  that killed 175,000 around the Indian Ocean.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Accusations flying  between the Indonesian military and rebels in tsunami-ravaged  Aceh province clouded prospects for recovery as aid workers on  Saturday began to switch their focus from relief to rebuilding.
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Desperate, homeless villagers on the tsunami-ravaged island of Sumatra mobbed American helicopters carrying aid Saturday as the U.S. military launched its largest operation in the region since the Vietnam War, ferrying food and other emergency relief to survivors across the disaster zone.
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Indonesian soldiers and rescue crews reached the town of Meulaboh on the west coast of tsunami-stricken Aceh province on Wednesday to find at least 3,400 dead bodies.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Indonesia sought to  reassure Western aid workers after a gunfire incident Sunday in  the major tsunami aid base of Banda Aceh raised safety fears.
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Medical team starts work with survivors in a town half destroyed by the earthquake and floods. In the next 48 hours, two MSF staff will make an air assessment of the northeast part of Aceh, using a helicopter
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Indonesian soldiers and rescue crews  reached the town of Meulaboh on the west coast of  tsunami-stricken Aceh province on Wednesday to find at least  3,400 dead bodies.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - A powerful aftershock and  a U.S. helicopter crash on Monday rattled massive relief  operations for victims of the tsunami and earthquake in  Indonesia's Aceh province but not for long.
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THAI army helicopters with loudspeakers hovered over remote jungle peaks in the south of the country yesterday, coaxing those who had fled Sundayâs massive tidal wave to come down to safety.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - The largest peace-time  relief effort in history zeroed in on the remote areas of  northern Sumatra that aid had yet to reach while doctors,  troops and relief workers raced to keep tsunami survivors  alive.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - U.S. helicopter aid  flights in Indonesia's tsunami-hit Aceh province have resumed  after briefly stopping because of the crash of a military  helicopter on Monday, a U.S. navy officer said.
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Relief efforts in Indonesia hit a setback when Banda Aceh airport is closed to flights after an accident.