Myanmar is on "a path to self-destruction" if violence in the conflict-wracked Southeast Asian nation doesn't end, the UN envoy has warned. Julie Bishop told the UN General Assembly that "alarmingly" ...

The country’s cities have been spared the violence of a hard-fought civil war. But as the economy has hollowed out, many ...

The Dalai Lama condemns the Buddhist-led violence in Myanmar. DHARAMSALA, India, April 22, 2013— -- Amid a damning new report showing official Myanmar complicity in ethnically cleansing entire ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Tuerk, poses for a picture. Christiane Oelrich/dpa Violence is on the rise in ...

A peace plan agreed on by Southeast Asian leaders five years ago has failed to end Myanmar’s civil war but it could still ...

In a request submitted to the International Criminal Court on Wednesday, lawyers included an unusual annex: 20 pages of purple thumbprints. These are the equivalent of signatures from 400 Rohingya ...

Over the past week, violence between Buddhists and Muslims in Rakhine State, in the western part of Myanmar, has flared up badly once again. According to reports in local media and the news wires, ...

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is appalled by the escalating violence in Myanmar and the resulting human suffering and displacement this is causing. We are shocked by the indiscriminate violence ...

BANGKOK (AP) — A nationwide strike marked the one-year anniversary Tuesday of the army’s seizure of power in Myanmar, as protests and sporadic violence across the country renewed concern over the ...