Over 40 civilians, including women and children, were killed in Myanmar's Rakhine state due to military air attacks. The ...

Dozens of people were killed in an air strike by Myanmar's military government in the western state of Rakhine this week, the ...

An airstrike by Myanmar’s army on a village under the control of an armed ethnic minority group killed about 40 people and ...

STORY: Myanmar's military government has released thousands of prisoners under an amnesty marking the nation's independence ...

Myanmar’s military government will release more than 6,000 prisoners and has reduced other inmates’ sentences as part of a mass amnesty to mark the 77th anniversary of independence from Britain ...

A former minister whose family left Myanmar for Britain has added his voice to growing calls for the release of Aung San Suu Kyi, who is imprisoned by the dictatorship there. Paul Scully said her ...

The son of ousted Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi has pleaded for her release from prison amid fears for the 79-year-old’s health in the country’s “terrible” prisons. Kim Aris told The ...

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Three former UK foreign secretaries have today called for the release of Aung San Suu Kyi, currently imprisoned by a brutal military dictatorship in Myanmar. William Hague, Sir Malcolm Rifkind and ...

Today that leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, eighty next year ... In the general election of 2015 Suu Kyi became Myanmar’s first honestly elected leader since 1962. But her triumph concealed a fatal ...