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 ...

The Gambia accuses Myanmar's leadership of carrying out "brutal and vicious violations" against the Muslim minority group.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE - In this Sept. 7, 2017, file photo, smoke rises from a burned house in Gawdu Zara village, northern Rakhine state, where the ...

The trafficking of refugees out of Bangladesh and Myanmar has become more sophisticated in response to growing regional law ...

If the ICJ fails the Rohingya, international law will be irreparably weakened - COMMENT: A trial at the International Court of Justice will decide whether the Rohingya’s suffering is legally genocide ...

The ongoing Rohingya crisis in Myanmar is a significant humanitarian and legal challenge now before the International Court of Justice. The Gambia's accusations of genocide have placed Myanmar's ...

Activists say a designation would boost efforts to hold Myanmar accountable. Three years ago, Myanmar's military escalated its persecution of the Rohingya-- a mostly-Muslim ethnic minority -- with a ...

The Rohingya are desperate to escape oppression for a chance at better lives. — -- Thousands of men, women and children from a minority group in Myanmar called the Rohingya are desperate enough ...

FILE - In this Sept. 7, 2017, file photo, smoke rises from a burned house in Gawdu Zara village, northern Rakhine state, where the vast majority of the country's 1.1 ...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Myanmar insisted Friday that its deadly military campaign against the Rohingya ethnic minority was a legitimate counter-terrorism operation and did not amount to genocide ...