The Latest Breaking News from Myanmar

The United Nations said Friday it fears a repeat of the 2017 atrocities committed against the Rohingya minority in Myanmar, warning a human tragedy was unfolding in Rakhine State.

The U.N.’s human rights chief has joined a chorus of concern for members of Myanmar’s Muslim Rohingya ethnic minority after many were reported killed in recent fighting between the military government and the Arakan Army, an armed ethnic rebel group

Two freelance journalists in the strife-torn nation of Myanmar have been killed, one allegedly after being captured, when security forces raided the home of one of them in the southern state of Mon

The United Nations verified 3,688 cases of conflict-related sexual violence around the world last year, a significant increase of 50% from 2022. This is certainly a vast underestimate of the true number of cases.

Activists working on behalf of Myanmar’s persecuted Rohingya minority say "hundreds" of refugees were killed on August 5 when they were bombed while trying to cross the river marking the border with Bangladesh. Many of the Rohingya in Myanmar’s Rakhine state had sought refuge in Maungdaw, a town on the…

Arakan Army targeting Muslim minority as Myanmar’s military are driven out of Rakhine, UN official says

The lakeside mansion where Myanmar democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi spent years under house arrest was put up for auction for the second time on Thursday but once again attracted no bids, AFP reporters said.

China's diplomatic visit to Myanmar addresses civil war instability and bilateral relations amidst growing conflict dynamics.

China’s top diplomat has visited Myanmar and met with the leader of its military government as growing instability from the neighboring country’s civil war causes concern in Beijing

The Assam government has defended its “illegal” infrastructure of two joint battalions within two reserve forests, saying the decision – taken without central government approval – was necessary to protect these forests from encroachers from Nagaland and Mizoram, as well as undocumented Rohingya migrants from Myanmar.

Recent reports reveal a resurgence of ethnic cleansing against Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar's Rakhine state, prompting a humanitarian crisis.