YANGON, Myanmar – Myanmar has deliberately obstructed aid deliveries to civilians in war-torn Kachin and northern Shan states, actions that may amount to war crimes, a human rights groups said ...

No matter what the truth of the government side’s command structure, the conflict has now risen as the biggest obstacle to reform, permanent peace, and the creation of some new federal structure, a ...

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 ...

1 of 5 — Kachin Independence Army recruits train at a military base in Maijiayang, Kachin State, Myanmar. The KIA has around 8,000 soldiers and has been fighting the Burmese government for ...

Kachin Independence Army (KIA) forces have tightened their encirclement of Infantry Battalion 58 in Kachin State’s Waingmaw, pushing to within 100 meters of the base and triggering near‑daily clashes, ...

Seng Moon grabbed her day-old baby and fled into the thick jungle, joining thousands of villagers escaping fighting between ethnic Kachin rebels and Myanmars army, now reinforced by a unit notorious ...

Ma Htu, 62, lost her 70-year-old husband when he was killed by crossfire during fighting between government troops and soldiers from the Kachin Independence Army (KIA). As the fighting that broke out ...

David Baulk, center, a specialist from Fortify Rights, a non-profit human rights organization, talks to journalists during a launching of a report on Myanmar's Kachin State at a hotel Thursday, Aug.

Myanmar, also known as Burma, has struggled to end the ethnic insurgencies that have long divided the country. Now, the last of the insurgent... For Myanmar's Kachin Rebels, Life Teeters Between War, ...