Myanmar

Although the genocide of the Rohingya minority in Myanmar has gathered greater media attention in recent months, there is no indication that the international community is prepared to act...

Iranian lawmakers and academics have criticised the Iranian envoy after he failed to attend a United Nations General Assembly voting on a draft resolution on Monday which called on...

The international community must act swiftly on the Rohingya crisis or the world will create another Palestine. That was the stark warning issued by a delegation from the Middle...

Millions of children around the world will wake up on Christmas Day and rip open their presents and parcels with an enthusiasm that only a child can display. The...

Turkey will build a field hospital for Rohingya refugees near the city of Cox's Bazar in Bangladesh. Turkey's Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD) will be responsible for the...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was heckled during an event in Jerusalem yesterday by protesters angry at arms sales to Myanmar, Israeli media reported. Demonstrators interrupted Netanyahu's speech at...

Pope Francis lost a historical opportunity to truly set his legacy apart from previous Popes. Alas, for him, too, political expediency trumped all else. In his visit to Burma...

Rohingyan children wait for food aid

In an unprecedented development, Amnesty International has pledged to consider whether the Israeli government is committing the crime of apartheid in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt). This marks the...

Israel says it sold arms to the Myanmar army because it understood the situation in the country better than the UN does, Haaretz reported the Deputy Consul General in...

More than 300 rabbis in the United States have urged Israel to end arms sales to Myanmar, whose government is committing serious human rights violations against its Rohingya Muslims....

Israel's relations with rogue states and governments accused of committing genocide and ethnic cleansing is set to be thrust into the spotlight once again as human rights groups prepare...

Egyptian militant group Hasm claimed responsibility on Sunday for a small explosion at Myanmar's embassy in Cairo, saying it was in retaliation for that country's military crackdown on Rohingya...

The UN Security council gather to discuss the ongoing violence in Myanmar

"This village is a Muslim-free zone," reads a sign hanging at the entrance to a village in an area of Myanmar outside Rakhine state. The orders are directed at...

Israel has issued a gag order against the country's High Court which will now be forced to keep secret details of its ruling on a petition against arms sales...

Israel has refused to stop selling arms to Myanmar, despite allegations of genocide, ethnic cleansing, rape, torture and massacre against the Rohingya Muslims. Israel has a lucrative arms deal...

Since August 25, more than 429,000 Rohingya have crossed from Myanmar's western state of Rakhine into Bangladesh

Nobel Peace laureates and other luminaries are queueing up to berate Aung San Suu Kyi for failing to intervene in the genocide unfolding in Myanmar. There are, however, bigger...

Saudi Arabia's monarch King Salman Bin Abdul Aziz Al-Saud has ordered the allocation of $15 million to alleviate the suffering of Rohingya Muslims who fled persecution in Rakhine state of...

Turkish aid agencies on Sunday distributed food at the Bangladesh border to the Rohingya Muslims fleeing violence in Myanmar's western Rakhine state. The food packages, including rice, oil, chickpeas, flour, salt and sugar, were distributed...

Emine Erdogan urges wives of world leaders to contribute positively towards helping Rohignya Muslims facing persecution

The latest shocking reports and images that Myanmar's Rohingya Muslims suffer at the hands of government forces have failed to rouse the world into significant action. This is true...

The state of Qatar has called on the UN Human Rights Council to end the "unjust" blockade imposed on it by Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, UAE and Egypt, the Anadolu...

To a certain extent, Aung San Suu Kyi is a false prophet. Glorified by the west for many years, she was made a 'democracy icon' because she opposed the...

The Grand Imam of Egypt's Al-Azhar Mosque has condemned the persecution of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar, according to Daily News Egypt. In a televised statement published on the mosque's...

Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims fled their homes in western Myanmar's Rakhine State

Gazan's attend a demonstration in support of the persecuted Rohingya people, on September 10, 2017

Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims fled their homes in western Myanmar's Rakhine State

Tunisian capital hosts two separate demonstrations to show solidarity with Myanmar’s oppressed Muslim minority

Fresh violence erupted in Rakhine state nearly two weeks ago when security forces launched an operation against the Rohingya and thousands of them have been slaughtered.

The organisation which oversees the Novel Peace Prize is unable to withdraw the honour from Myanmar President Aung San Suu Kyi, in spite of the fact her government is...