A civil war in Myanmar has displaced millions, killed or maimed thousands more and left the country in poverty. Now China is flexing its muscle to protect interests in the region.

The chaotic country is now a magnet for criminal syndicates, particularly from China, destabilizing law enforcement across ...

Myanmar, known as Burma until 1989, has struggled with decades of repressive military rule, civil war and poor governance since it became independent of the British in 1948. But the latest ...

With the sudden collapse of the al-Assad regime in Syria, analysts and fighters in other long running civil wars are ...

Amidst a nonstop drumbeat of horrendous news about Burma’s civil war, international observers could be forgiven for thinking the country’s brutal military regime is proving impossible to dislodge.

By Sonam Lama Hyolmo Amid Myanmar’s ongoing civil war, Karen and other ethnic minority communities have officially launched ...

Myanmar is seeing increasingly deadly battles between its military and organised groups of armed civilians, new data suggests. Many of those fighting the military are young people who have put ...

Myanmar's latest census reveals a population drop amid armed conflict and partial data collection. With only 145 out of 330 ...

Not initially to Burma itself - which for years was in lockdown under a repressive military junta - but to camps in Thailand where refugees from Burma's decades-long civil wars fled for safety.

IMPHAL, India, Dec 20 (Reuters) - Indian militant groups that took refuge in Myanmar and fought in its civil war have been streaming ... and the Kuki National Army - Burma in Sagaing, Kachin ...

Indian insurgent groups that took refuge in Myanmar and fought in its civil war have been streaming back across the border to ...

BANGKOK (AP) — Two days of meetings on Myanmar ’s violent political crisis began Thursday in the Thai capital Bangkok, the ...