BANGKOK (AP) — The prospects for peace in Myanmar, much less a return to democracy, seem dimmer than ever two years after the army seized power from the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi, experts ...

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Los Angeles Times photographer Francine Orr has covered Africa and other world hot spots for years. In her travels, she's seen first-hand the faces and heard the voices of child soldiers caught up in ...

BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar’s main pro-democracy resistance group said Thursday its armed wing launched drone attacks on the airport and a military headquarters in the capital, Naypyitaw, but the country’s ...

A great deal has been written about the Ugandan rebel group, the Lord’s Resistance Army. Under their commander, Joseph Kony, the group became notorious for its brutal violence and use of child ...

About two dozen members of local resistance forces in central Burma were killed in an army ambush as they sought to evacuate villagers ahead of a feared attack by the military, according to resistance ...

Georgian special operations forces and a notional Georgian guerrilla force navigate to an objective during the 10th Annual Agile Spirit Multinational Exercise in Senaki, Republic of Georgia, Aug. 1, ...