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The U.N. special envoy to Myanmar says widespread popular resistance to the military's brutal repression shows no sign of abating across much of the country.

Myanmar’s military government has denied reports of a new mass killing of civilians by its troops, instead blaming pro-democracy resistance groups for the deaths of more than 20 people, including three Buddhist monks.

While still grappling with the traumas exacted upon them in Myanmar, the Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh are coping with new pressures.

Burmese soldiers rampaged through villages and killed at least 17 people. They have also beheaded, tortured, and raped residents in a series of war crimes since the army took control.

A resident and members of Myanmar's anti-government resistance say soldiers have rampaged through several villages, raping, beheading and killing at least 17 people.

A fire at a refugee camp in Bangladesh has left thousands of Rohingya Muslims homeless. Hundreds of thousands of Muslims escaped Myanmar during a brutal crackdown.

The blaze hit Sunday morning and has left thousands homeless. Some 740,000 Rohingya refugees have fled to Bangladesh from Myanmar since 2017, when the Myanmar military launched a brutal crackdown.

A massive fire has raced through a crammed refugee camp for Rohingya Muslims in southern Bangladesh, leaving thousands homeless

A massive fire has raced through a crammed refugee camp for Rohingya Muslims in southern Bangladesh, leaving thousands homeless.

Human rights lawyers have called on the International Criminal Court to open an investigation into alleged crimes they say were committed by Turkish authorities against thousands of opponents of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Sanctions have been imposed on nine Burma officials and seven entities by the European Union linked to rising violence and human rights abuses.

Since the February 2021 military takeover in Myanmar, landmines planted by all sides of the conflict have become responsible for skyrocketing civilian casualties, including children increasingly as victims

Since the February 2021 military takeover in Myanmar, landmines planted by all sides of the conflict have become responsible for skyrocketing civilian casualties, including children increasingly as victims

Myanmar’s military, which seized power in a coup in February 2021, has made repeated promises about a return to civilian rule and limited democracy — so far unkept. The former leader, 77-year-old Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, is expected to spend the rest of her life in jail. The military, known as the Tatmadaw, has used increasingly brutal tactics to subdue its enemies, including the first executions in three decades. By its own admission, nearly half the country is facing instability due to

This week marked two years since Myanmar’s generals interrupted their nation’s fitful experiment in democracy. Close to 3,000 civilians have been killed in that time, humanitarian groups say.

The state of emergency should have expired and ushered in planning for fresh elections. With violence still raging, neither of those things will happen soon.

Opponents of Myanmar's military rule heeded a call on Wednesday by organizers to stay home in a "silent strike" as the prospects for peace in the country seem dim 2 years after the army seized power.

The prospects for peace in Myanmar, much less a return to democracy, seem dimmer than ever two years after the army seized power from the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi.

The independent U.N. special investigator on Myanmar is warning that the country’s military rulers plan to seek legitimacy by orchestrating a “sham” election this year and is urging all countries to reject the illegal vote

Two years after Myanmar’s military seized power, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is voicing support for the democratic aspirations of Myanmar’s people

World Bank economists say Myanmar's economy grew 3% last year and will likely achieve the same pace in 2023, but still lags far behind where it stood before the army seized power in early 2021.

In this season, farmers earned twice as much selling opium in 2022 as they did the previous year, the report found.

The production of opium in Myanmar has flourished since the military's seizure of power as the faltering economy has led more people toward the drug trade, according to a new United Nations report.

The United Nations says the production of opium in Myanmar has flourished since the military’s seizure of power.

A human rights group and 16 individuals have filed a criminal complaint in Germany seeking punishment of Myanmar’s generals for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity.

Nearly two years on from a brutal military coup, the country has slid into civil war. A failed state in the heart of Asia benefits no one.

Troops are using homemade arms against their own people, says a report which urges an end to supplies.

Five ethnic Karen were killed in a Myanmar air strike carried out by country's military. Karen villagers conducted school in the jungle to keep students safe.

A leading rights group says widespread opposition to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine demonstrates the power of a unified response against human rights abuses.

More than 100 weak and hungry Rohingya Muslim refugees are among the latest group to reach ashore in Indonesia after a long and dangerous journey aboard a wooden boat

Myanmar’s ruling military leader, Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing, has detailed plans for an election later this year and called for national unity in a speech as he led a ceremony marking the 75th anniversary of independence from Britain.

Having reclaimed power in Myanmar after a brief period of limited democracy, the military continued to clamp down on civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi and her party.

That gives her a total sentence of 33 years, capping a series of politically tinged prosecutions since the army toppled her elected government in February 2021.

A court's conviction against Aung San Suu Kyi leaves her with 33 years to serve in prison following a series of politically tinged prosecutions since her government was toppled in February 2021.

A group of nearly 60 hungry and weak men are found in Aceh province after many days at sea.

The United Nations and other groups are urging countries in southern Asia to rescue as many as 190 people believed to be Rohingya refugees aboard a small boat that has been adrift for several weeks in the Andaman Sea

Some 160 Rohingya refugees, who fled Myanmar and are now seeking to leave a camp in Bangladesh, have been adrift in the Andaman sea for more than two weeks.

The U.N. Security Council has approved a resolution demanding an immediate end to violence in Myanmar.

Authorities in military-run Myanmar have arrested 12 people accused of illegally transporting members of the Muslim Rohingya minority across the country for travel to Malaysia, including 13 who apparently died from suffocation while being hidden in a fuel tanker truck

The U.N. General Assembly has rejected attempts by Myanmar’s military junta, Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers and Libya’s eastern-based government to take their countries’ seats at the United Nations

Two well-informed U.N. diplomats say a key U.N. committee has again blocked Myanmar’s military junta from taking the country’s seat at the United Nations

A new report says the war in Ukraine, chaos in Haiti and criminal groups in Mexico contributed to a 30% spike in the number of journalists killed in 2022 over the previous year

Myanmar’s military says more than 150 Rohingya have been rescued off the coast of Myanmar after their boat started taking on water

Authorities say Thai soldiers clashed with suspected drug smugglers in a forested area in the country’s north near the Myanmar border, killing 15

An Australian economist who spent almost two years imprisoned in Myanmar has received a hero’s welcome at Australia’s Parliament House.

A U.N. expert says the release of thousands of prisoners in Myanmar is likely an attempt by its military government to “create a veneer of progress” in the country to sway international opinion

Kyaw Htay Oo, a naturalized American citizen, reportedly returned to his country of birth in 2017 and was arrested and held on terrorism charges last year.

Myanmar's expected release of more than 5,700 prisoners is expected to include the U.K.'s former envoy to the Asian country, an Australian economist and a Japanese filmmaker, according to state media.

Those freed also include an Australian professor and a Japanese filmmaker.

Myanmar’s military-controlled government released an Australian academic, a Japanese filmmaker, an ex-British diplomat and an American as part of a broad prisoner amnesty that also freed many local citizens held for protesting the army takeover.

In Indonesia, two boats with over 100 Rohingya refugees landed on a beach as they attempted to leave refugee camps in Bangladesh to seek a better life in Malaysia.

Over 100 Rohingya Muslims traveling in a wooden boat have landed on an Indonesian beach

Over 100 Rohingya Muslims traveling in a wooden boat have landed on an Indonesian beach.

More than 100 Rohingya Muslims traveling in a boat for more than a month have been found along the coast of Indonesia’s Aceh province

Indonesia’s president is vowing not to let Southeast Asia become the front lines of a new Cold War amid increasing tensions between the United States and China.

The Myanmar military's recent airstrikes have been among the deadliest and most indiscriminate since it seized control last February, fueling calls for a global arms embargo.

Southeast Asian leaders are convening in Cambodia, faced with the challenge of trying to curtail escalating violence in Myanmar while the country’s military-led government shows no signs of complying with the group’s peace plan.

The European Union has slapped sanctions on several senior officials and armed forces officers in Myanmar, where a military takeover last year set off violence that threatens to destabilize other parts of Southeast Asia

An escalation of fighting in Rakhine state is overextending the junta's forces and giving local ethnic insurgents an opportunity to consolidate power.

Amnesty International is urging suppliers of aviation fuel to Myanmar to suspend such shipments to prevent the military from using them to conduct air attacks on civilian targets.

The U_N_ refugee chief says Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has driven some 14 million Ukrainians from their homes in “the fastest, largest displacement witnessed in decades.”

The U_N_ special envoy for Myanmar is warning that the political, human rights and humanitarian crisis in the military-ruled Southeast Asian nation is deepening and taking “a catastrophic toll on the people.”.

About 100 people were also injured in Sunday's attack at a celebration marking the 62nd anniversary of the Kachin Independence Organization.

The number of casualties appeared to be the most in a single air attack since the military seized power last year from the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi.

"We are appalled by reports that Burma's military regime arrested, publicly mutilated and beheaded a schoolteacher," the U.S. State Department said.

A Malaysian rights group has condemned the government’s move to deport 150 Myanmar nationals, including six defectors from the Myanmar military who were all arrested upon arrival in their homeland

Villagers say the decapitated body of a high school teacher was left on grotesque display at a burned-out school in rural Myanmar after he was detained and killed by the military

Villagers say the decapitated body of a high school teacher was left on grotesque display at a burned-out school in rural Myanmar after he was detained and killed by the military.

Having reclaimed power in Myanmar after a brief period of limited democracy, the military continued to clamp down on civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi and her party.

A court in military-ruled Myanmar has sentenced a Japanese journalist to prison after he filmed an anti-government protest in July.

For years, Facebook, now called Meta, has pushed the narrative that it was a neutral platform in Myanmar that was misused by malicious people and failed to moderate violent and hateful material adequately.

A fashion model from Myanmar who feared being arrested by the country’s military government if she was forced back home from exile has flown to Canada, which she says has granted her asylum.

The Biden administration has expanded and extended temporary legal status for several thousand people from Myanmar living in the U.S. until May 2024.

A model from Myanmar denounced her country’s military rulers last year from the stage of a beauty pageant in Thailand.

Myanmar’s military-ruled government has denied reports it carried out an air attack on a school that killed at least seven children, accusing the media of distorting the truth.

A school administrator says government helicopters have attacked a school and village in Myanmar, killing at least 13 people including seven children.

Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees are marking the fifth anniversary of their exodus from Myanmar to Bangladesh.

The U.N. special envoy for Myanmar, Noeleen Heyzer, has met with the head of its military-installed government and urged him to halt all violence and support a political path back to civilian rule and democracy, Heyzer also called on Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing to allow the country’s imprisoned former leader Aung San Suu Kyi to return home and to meet with her.

The U.N. says its special envoy for Myanmar has traveled to the Southeast Asian nation for the first time since her appointment last October.

A court in military-ruled Myanmar has convicted the country’s ousted leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, on more corruption charges, adding six years to her earlier 11-year prison sentence.

Bangladesh has sought cooperation from China to repatriate Rohingya refugees to Myanmar during a visit by Foreign Minister Wang Yi, who promised better trade ties, investment and support for infrastructure development in the South Asian nation.

Top Southeast Asian diplomats meeting in Cambodia’s capital are intensifying efforts to stop the escalating violence in Myanmar.

Pro-democracy activists say Myanmar's military authorities have arrested a Japanese video journalist who was filming an anti-government protest in Yangon, Myanmar's biggest city.

Myanmar has carried out its first executions in nearly 50 years, hanging a former lawmaker, a democracy activist and two other political prisoners who had been accused of a targeted killing after the country’s military takeover last year.

Ousted Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi is testifying for the first time in an election fraud charge against her and two co-defendants.

Devin Scillian sat down with Metro Detroit native and journalist Danny Fenster, the writer who was jailed in military-controlled Myanmar for six months before being released last November.

Facebook has failed another test of its ability to detect blatant, violent hate speech in advertisements submitted to the platform by the nonprofit group Global Witness.

The United Nations' humanitarian relief agency says the number of people displaced within strife-torn Myanmar has exceeded 1 million for the first time.

Photos and videos of Tuesday’s bombing in Myanmar circulated on social media, showing bloodied victims sprawled on the sidewalk.

The number of methamphetamine tablets seized in East and Southeast Asia exceeded a billion last year, highlighting the scale of illegal drug production and trafficking in the region.

At least 16 people from Myanmar’s Rohingya minority have died after a storm capsized the boat they were traveling on as they sought refuge in another country.

Ousted Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi has gone on trial in the latest corruption case filed against her.

A court in military-ruled Myanmar has convicted former leader Aung San Suu Kyi of corruption and sentenced her to five years in prison.

A report by the World Wildlife Fund shows illegal trading in wildlife online is growing in Myanmar in a threat both to public health and to endangered species.

Myanmar’s leader has vowed to intensify action against homegrown militia groups fighting the military-run government, saying the armed forces would “annihilate” them.

Madeleine Albright, the first woman US secretary of state, has passed away at the age of 84, according to her family.

The Biden administration is expanding travel bans on Chinese officials whom it accuses of repressing ethnic and religious minorities.

Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh’s sprawling camps have welcomed an announcement by the U.S. calling the repression on the minority group in Myanmar a genocide.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken says the violent repression of the largely Muslim Rohingya population in Myanmar amounts to genocide.

A new report has found that Facebook failed to detect blatant hate speech and calls to violence against Myanmar's Rohingya Muslim minority in advertisements submitted to run on its platform.