Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On Monday, a U.N. Fact-Finding Mission called for top Myanmar military officials to be prosecuted for genocide, crimes against ...

The Kachin Independence Army (KIA) has urged residents of Shwegu in Kachin State to evacuate immediately and announced the closure of main roads into the town as Myanmar regime troops advance, ...

She had just finished describing how she had been raped by two men, dressed as policemen, when more police showed up. These police weren’t wearing uniforms, but everyone in the village in Burma’s ...

The global supply of heavy rare earths hinges in part on the outcome of a months-long battle between a rebel army and the ...

The Tamadaw, the military of Myanmar, has been attacking the ethnic minority Kachin people in what some observers are calling a genocide. Although much attention has been given to the ethnic Rohingya, ...

Hundreds of military vehicles have reached Myitkyina in recent weeks, with the KIA warning the buildup signals preparations for a new offensive across Kachin State.

Myanmar’s Tatmadaw has been launching air strikes in the gold and mining region inside Kachin state’s Tanai township in recent months. The area is controlled by the Kachin Independence Organization ...

In the scramble for access to the nation's rare earth deposits, a non-state armed group holds the cards. As Myanmar’s military pushes forward with its plan to consolidate power through sham elections, ...

Mai Ja Yang, Myanmar (efe_epa). — The leaders of 17 ethnic armed groups and organizations in Myanmar gathered Wednesday in a border town in northern Kachin state to prepare for the upcoming Union ...

The clanking sound of leg irons shackled around the ankles of the unwilling patients signals the arrival of a small group of heroin addicts at the mess hall located inside a fortified Pat Ja San ...