On a blue-sky winter’s day in Myanmar’s western Rakhine State, hundreds of people from two neighbouring villages – one populated by ethnic Rakhine people and the other by the minority Rohingya ethnic ...

Khin Mar Cho worries for her 4-year-old son as she struggles to scrape together enough food to feed him in a makeshift displacement camp at a crowded monastery in western Myanmar. Soldiers had stormed ...

At least 30 people were killed, including patients, after an airstrike by the country's ruling junta hit a hospital in ...

Nine policemen have been killed in a militant attack in Myanmar’s western Rakhine state, police said on Sunday, as tensions ratchet up in a state riven by ethnic and religious conflict. The northern ...

The military coup in Myanmar has destabilized most of the country, but many in Myanmar’s Rakhine State, one of its poorest, see little difference between the old democratic regime and the military ...

This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Adrian Edwards – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today's press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. 7 June 2013 Also ...

(Reuters) - Myanmar's war-ravaged Rakhine state could face imminent famine according to a United Nations report, which estimates that more than two million people could be at the risk of starvation.

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A leading United Nations human rights expert claims the Myanmar military is carrying out “war crimes” against ethnic minorities, emboldened by special extended powers intended to help control the ...

United Nations officials in Burma said Wednesday that earlier this month, two boys were killed amid crossfire between the Tatmadaw, the country's military, and the Arakan Army, an ethnic Buddhist ...

A Myanmar military airstrike on a village in the western Rakhine state killed at least 40 people and injured over 20 others on Wednesday, according to officials and ethnic armed group representatives.

The northern Rakhine state has been plagued by violence, and armed forces are now waging a war against a militant group claiming to represent the state’s ethnic Rakhine Buddhists. [AFP] Nine policemen ...