Retired Myanmar rebel takes on Rambo
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BANGKOK, Thailand  - A retired rebel soldier from the jungles of eastern Myanmar has been plucked from obscurity to play a brutal Burmese officer opposite Hollywood star Sylvester Stallone in his latest "Rambo" movie.
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The Thai military is pushing to regain control of a phone company sold to Singapore by former Thai leader.
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One-time drug warlord Khun Sa, variously described as among the world's most wanted men and as a great liberation fighter, has died, an associate and a Burma official said Tuesday. He was 74
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Cambodia's most senior surviving Khmer Rouge leader taken to face UN genocide charges.
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President Karzai's rival gains ground by appealing to Afghanistan's former anti-Soviet resistance fighters.
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have been freed in military-ruled Myanmar, part of the junta&#39;s latest release of more than 5,000 prisoners. U Htwe Myint, 76, and U Thu Wai, also in his 70s, were released from Yangon&#39;s notorious Insein prison.
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Negotiators from Myanmar&#39;s largest armed rebel group have been freed after they were detained during a political shakeup in Yangon, the rebel group said today.
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Myanmar's junta poured troops and police armed with rifles into central Yangon on Tuesday in an attempt to end the biggest demonstrations against military rule in nearly 20 years.
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Ivory Coast's New Forces rebel group, now part of the unity government, accused Sunday one of its former leaders of trying to stage a coup in the west African nation.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti  - A Haitian rebel leader  has called on ex-soldiers, who helped oust former president  Jean-Bertrand Aristide, to launch a guerrilla war to unseat the  interim government that replaced him.
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The secretary general of Burma's largest rebel group, the Karen National Union, is killed.
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A gatekeeper's resolve has earned him the nickname 'Rambo' at a US base in Kabul.
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New Delhi, Oct. 25: Visiting Myanmar military ruler Senior General Than Shwe today told his hosts his country will not allow its soil to be used by Northeast insurgents against Indian interests.
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Army reinforcements sent to bolster the Democratic Republic of Congo's fragile border region with Rwanda have clashed with former rebel units within the army, a local military commander said on Sunday.
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Soldiers fired warning shots in the air to break up hundreds of Buddhist monks protesting in central Myanmar against a massive hike in fuel prices, media reports and a resident said Thursday.
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Australian and U.N. forces are searching for the remnants of the rebels who attempted to assassinate the country's prime minister and president
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As rebels, soldiers and pro-government militia fight on, civilians pay the price