BANGKOK, Thailand -- Children are being snatched off the streets of Myanmar and forced to fight and commit atrocities in an army with the world's largest number of boy soldiers, according to human ...

Soldiers in Myanmar rampaged through several villages, raping, beheading and killing at least 17 people, residents said, in the latest of what critics of the ruling military say are a series of war ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Myanmar is still recruiting and using child soldiers, despite embracing democratic reforms and a U.N. agreement to end the practice, a human rights group said Wednesday. Child ...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Friday called for the Myanmar military to stop the recruitment and use of child soldiers. Since the junta took over Myanmar in the 2021 coup, the recruitment and use of ...

Myanmar’s ruling military plans to call up young people for mandatory service starting in April and also require retired security personnel to serve, media reports cited a junta spokesman as saying, ...

BANGKOK, Nov. 19 -- The United States is close to accepting for resettlement the young, gun-toting twins who led a band of rebels in the Burmese jungle until their surrender in January. A spokesman ...

Christians find themselves battered by the world’s longest civil war and a brutally repressive regime On the Burmese side of the Moei River, the reality of the Burma Army attack was there for all to ...

The ruling junta in Myanmar made conscripts take drugs to stay sharp on the battlefield and reduce their sensitivity to violence, soldiers captured by rebel forces alleged. Five captured soldiers, ...