In Nepal, the former leader of the Maoist insurgency that helped end monarchical rule has been appointed prime minister for a third time. Pushpa Kamal Dahal, better known as Prachanda, ...

An outright Maoist revolt soon plunged Nepal into a civil war in 1996, which lasted for almost a decade. A Comprehensive Peace Accord was finally signed between the government and Maoists in 2006 ...

Two CPN (Maoist Centre) leaders fought at the party's Mahendranagar office on Sunday evening.

New Delhi Tens of thousands of college students across Nepal were locked out of classes for two days this week after the student wing of the Maoist rebel movement there called a strike, forcing ...

The Maoists first took my younger brother. He was 14 years old. He managed to escape. He just kept crying and kept saying that he would not go with the Maoists even if they beat him. They made him ...

The bronze bells are ringing in the temples of Bhaktapur, ... Upon striking a deal with Nepal’s political parties, the Maoists promised not to attack the Kathmandu valley during the protests, ...

For centuries, mountainous Nepal was the realm of kings, but a Maoist insurgency that began in the mid-1990s set into motion a series of events that led to the monarchy’s abolition in 2008.

PANAUTI, Nepal -- They came just after dinnertime, hundreds of communist rebels in green fatigues flowing in from each direction. One group stormed down the brick lanes of Panauti's old town ...

A rebel raid killed 127 people in Nepal over the weekend. The violence comes on the anniversary of the 1996 launch of the Maoist insurgency. Guest host Jacki Lyden talks with Jim Fisher, professor ...

Nepal was thrown into political limbo yesterday after the Maoists quit the interim government of the newly republican nation and demanded the prime minister’s resignation. Nepal’s former Maoist rebels ...

Nepal Maoists NPR's Michael Sullivan reports from Katmandu that an undeclared war in the south Asian mountain kingdom of Nepal has killed at least two-thousand people since it began four years ago.

KATHMANDU, Nepal, June 16 -- The chief of Nepal's Maoist rebels emerged from a landmark meeting with government leaders here Friday to announce that the guerrillas would join a new interim ...