MEIKTILA, MYANMAR - APRIL 5: A Burmese man walks by destroyed buildings on April 5, 2012 in Meiktila, Myanmar. Recent sectarian violence between Buddhists and Muslims in March left 43 people dead, ...

As the faithful filed towards a Yangon mosque for Friday prayers, conversations readily turned to Myanmar’s election, with hopes for greater freedom tainted by fear among Muslims at the sharp end of ...

MEIKHTILA, Myanmar (AP) – A Myanmar court sentenced seven Muslims to prison Tuesday _ one of them to a life term _ in the killing of a Buddhist monk amid deadly sectarian violence that was ...

As Myanmar opens up, at least 100,000 Muslims have been made homeless in the past two years by violent attacks, and hundreds if not thousands have been killed, along with a much smaller number of ...

Armed police secure the compound of Ekayana Buddhist Centre in Jakarta in the early morning of Aug. 5, 2013, hours after a bombing attack hit the temple in the evening of Aug. 4ROMEO GACAD / AFP / ...

TANZANIA – Rohingya Muslims pleaded with the international community at the first United Nations high-level meeting on the plight of the ethnic minority to prevent the mass killings taking place in ...

Earlier this month, India deported a group of Rohingya Muslims to Myanmar, the first such deportation since the government last year ordered the expulsion of members of the Myanmar minority group and ...

Myanmar's civil war: The ongoing civil war in Myanmar has affected Rakhine state the most. In Rakhine, the Arakan Army (AA) has steadily gained ground against the junta regime in the past months and ...

Thousands of mourners gathered on Monday to bury a top Muslim lawyer and adviser to Aung San Suu Kyi who was gunned down outside Yangon airport in what the ruling party said was a political ...

One of Myanmar's five million young adults, May Thandar Maung had been excited to cast her ballot for the very first time in November's election. "My religion means I haven't been able to get an ID ...