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After Cyclone Mahasen, Myanmar camps face monsoon threat Cyclone Mahasen , but many are now returning to flimsy tents in flood-prone camps with the monsoon just weeks away. Myanmar's Rakhine state is pockmarked with makeshift settlements for up to
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Dmitrij Adamow, who was born and raised in Uzbekistan. In 1989, in his home town of Fergana civil war began. On the first night of the war extremists burned many houses in the city, along with the people. Dmitrij parents died.
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Bangladeshi women cry for their missing relatives during a prayer ceremony for the souls of the 1,127 people who died in a garment building structure collapse last month, in Savar, near Bangladesh. (A.M. Ahad/AP) A Kashmiri Bakarwal walks with his
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Hundreds died in that violence and tens of thousands of others were left homeless, mostly ethnic Rohingya Muslims. Weather forecasters predict that Cyclone Mahasen will hit land in neighboring Bangladesh later this week. However, they say heavy rains
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A tropical cyclone in the Andaman Sea is headed close to an area in Myanmar where tens of thousands of victims of ethnic and religious violence are living in makeshift camps, adding urgency to fears of what the United Nations has termed a looming
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Anti-Muslim sentiment unlikely to let up in Burma Things seem to keep getting worse for Muslims living in Burma. Despite a recent proclamation from Burma President Thein Sein that he and his government "will take all necessary action" to protect the
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In Myanmar's central heartlands, justice and security is elusive for thousands of Muslims who lost their homes in a deadly rampage by Buddhist mobs in March. Many are detained in prison-like camps, unable to return to neighborhoods and businesses
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Syrian opposition activists said Sunday that government forces had killed at least 80 people in a town south of Damascus, and then carried out mass arrests as the residents tried to bury the bodies...The two men suspected in the Boston Marathon
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In a narrow, damp alley at the heart of this bustling tourist hotspot sits a row of tin-roofed shacks...Although Myanmar has been widely praised for adopting democratic reforms after years of isolation, a recent spate
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Three people including a gold shop owner have been jailed for 14 years in connection with religious riots in Myanmar last month, state media and police said on Friday. The three Muslims -- who also include the owner's wife and an employee -- were
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