Some of the oldest poems are about war. Verses about warfare were carved onto Sumerian tablets that are more than four millennia old. Japanese samurai also wrote poetry about battles, as did Walt ...

Burmese academic Sophia Htwe spent hours desperately trying to call home from Australia after the 7.7 magnitude earthquake ...

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk warned on Friday of the “unremitting violence” being committed against ...

At least 3,770 people were killed by the 7.7 magnitude earthquake that struck on 28 March, with 5,106 injured and 106 still ...

Myanmar’s Department of Meteorology and Hydrology reported Monday there had been 157 aftershocks after the big quake, ranging ...

It also worsened an already dire humanitarian crisis triggered by the country’s civil war which had internally displaced more ... Alinn newspaper published on Saturday said the quake’s death toll had ...

where the civil war had already displaced more than 3 million people. Maj. Gen. Zaw Min Tun, a spokesperson for Myanmar’s military government, said on Wednesday that the death toll from the 7.7 ...

As of Friday, the death toll from that quake was 3,649 ... damage caused by the March 28 quake will worsen the existing humanitarian crisis in Myanmar, where a civil war had already displaced more ...

BANGKOK (AP) — Human rights experts for the United Nations are expressing urgent concern about ongoing military operations in Myanmar’s civil war ... and to cease military operations.” The death toll ...

International rescue teams have started returning home as rescue efforts from the March 28 earthquake have started winding down and the focus turns to recovery for the millions of people impacted.

The death toll surpassed 3,600 and was still climbing ... that escalated into armed resistance and what now amounts to civil war. Although the military government and its armed opponents declared ...