YANGON: Myanmar will refuse entry to members of a United Nations probe focusing on allegations of killings, rape and torture by security forces against Rohingya...
YANGON: Myanmar's censors have barred a documentary on festering religious tensions between Buddhists and Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine state, a film festival organiser said...
DHAKA: Bangladesh has arrested more than a dozen people from Myanmar's Rohingya Muslim minority and two men accused of trying to smuggle them illegally...
YANGON: Hardline Myanmar monk Wirathu, once dubbed the "face of Buddhist terror" for his anti-Muslim diatribes, toured Rakhine State on Thursday in a provocative...
YANGON: Myanmar should immediately start letting Rohingya Muslims return home and ultimately close rundown camps for the displaced in its western Rakhine state, a...
SINGAPORE: Myanmar should take significant steps to achieve peace in Rakhine state, Indonesia's foreign minister said Friday, warning that the bloody crackdown on the...
WASHINGTON: The United States is "deeply troubled" by the findings of a United Nations report that said soldiers in Myanmar's Rakhine State had committed...
ISLAMABAD: Adviser to Prime Minister on Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz will lead Pakistan delegation to the Extraordinary Session of the Council of Foreign Ministers...
NAYPYIDAW, Myanmar: The UN's rights envoy for Myanmar arrived in troubled Rakhine state on Friday for a trip north to probe allegations of horrific abuse...
DHAKA: More than 20,000 Rohingya have fled to Bangladesh in recent weeks, humanitarian officials said on Tuesday, following a bloody crackdown by the army...
YANGON: The United Nations has called for a probe into allegations that Myanmar troops have killed civilians and torched villages in northern Rakhine state,...
YANGON: Former UN chief Kofi Annan will advise Myanmar's new government on resolving conflicts in Rakhine, a region divided on religious grounds and home to the stateless Muslim Rohingya, it was announced Wednesday.
YANGON: Nearly 100 police guarded a northern Myanmar village Saturday after a Buddhist mob burned down a mosque, a police officer said. This is the second attack of its kind in just over a week as anti-Muslim sentiment swells in the Southeast Asian nation.
Myanmar President Thein Sein, in a surprise move hours before leaving office, lifted a state of emergency in the restive western state of Rakhine, imposed after clashes between Buddhists and minority Rohingya Muslims in 2012.
Rohingya Muslims have been subjected to much torture, persecution and oppression in the recent past. Here's what you need to know about the persecuted Muslim community and why are they being tormented as such, in Myanmar.