Forced conscription has failed to change the course of Myanmar’s grinding civil war, and many are refusing to serve.

On Sunday, a team of U.S. Air Force personnel arrived in Bangkok from Japan, with four men dressed partly in camouflage carrying bags ... rebel groups fighting to remove the military from power ...

At least three hospitals in the country are out of service, according to the World Health Organisation, three days after a ...

Government troops from the 80th Infantry (STEADFAST) Battalion clashed with remnants of the dismantled Komiteng Larangang ...

Volunteers asked for more body bags for the corpses ... not speak for the multiple rebel groups and ethnic armies fighting government forces. The powerful Arakan Army, which has won control ...

Assad, who ruled over Syria with an iron fist for 24 years, used a private jet to spirit away cash, valuables and ...

Rights group Amnesty International spoke to three residents, who said there was a rising need for body bags ... civil war between ethnic rebel groups and its military. While the junta has ...

Born from the trauma of World War II, this bow-wearing cartoon icon became a powerful tool for diplomacy, reinvention, and ...

Russia launched a deadly strike on the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv. Trump says he wants peace quickly. And, NPR looks inside ...

Conditions could get even tougher for the huge relief effort after weather officials warned unseasonal rain could threaten ...

Two alleged members of the New People’s Army were killed in a clash with the Philippine Army in Cawayan town in Masbate ...