"We strongly urge the [Burmese] military regime to cease violence, including harming civilians and civilian infrastructure, ...

The Arakan Army says the two soldiers were killed in retaliation for the torture and murder of numerous Rakhine State civilians.

and more than 28,000 have been jailed as political prisoners, including democratically elected leaders such as Aung San Suu Kyi and President U Win Myint. Burma is a long-forgotten battleground ...

Bert Warne, 102, spent three and a half years as a prisoner of war and his weight at the time dropped to six and a half stone (41.3kg). He worked on the Burma and Thailand line, also known as the ...

Battle of the Coral Sea: In the first Japanese defeat of the war, American forces sink a Japanese carrier and badly damage two others heading for New Guinea. Japan completes capture of Burma and ...