Myanmar targeted the Rohingya for destruction and made their lives a nightmare, the top UN court heard on the first day of the proceedings in a landmark case accusing the Southeast Asian country of ...

MEIKHTILA, Myanmar (AP) – A Myanmar court sentenced seven Muslims to prison Tuesday _ one of them to a life term _ in the killing of a Buddhist monk amid deadly sectarian violence that was ...

As Myanmar opens up, at least 100,000 Muslims have been made homeless in the past two years by violent attacks, and hundreds if not thousands have been killed, along with a much smaller number of ...

Lao Prime Minister Sonexay Siphandone hands ASEAN’s ceremonial gavel to Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim during the closing ceremony of the 44th and 45th ASEAN Summits and Related Summits in ...

Myanmar's military junta, besieged by resistance forces in Rakhine State, is said to be forcibly recruiting Rohingya Muslims ...

Armed police secure the compound of Ekayana Buddhist Centre in Jakarta in the early morning of Aug. 5, 2013, hours after a bombing attack hit the temple in the evening of Aug. 4ROMEO GACAD / AFP / ...

BANGKOK -- The death toll in last week's major earthquake in Myanmar has passed 2,000, state media said Monday, as accounts of some people's last moments emerged: Two hundred Buddhist monks crushed by ...

Myanmar's de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi's has broken her silence on the killing of a prominent Muslim lawyer and government advisor. Suu Kyi described slain lawyer U Ko Ni as a valued colleague and ...

Earlier this month, India deported a group of Rohingya Muslims to Myanmar, the first such deportation since the government last year ordered the expulsion of members of the Myanmar minority group and ...

SITTWE, Myanmar (Reuters) - Muslim survivors of six days of sectarian violence in western Myanmar spoke on Sunday of fleeing bullets and burning homes to escape on fishing boats after an attack by ...

SIT KWIN, Myanmar (Reuters) - The Muslims of Sit Kwin were always a small group who numbered no more than 100 of the village's 2,000 people. But as sectarian violence led by Buddhist mobs spreads ...