Aung San Suu Kyi’s son, Kim Aris, made a direct plea to Myanmar’s military junta on Friday, 31 January, for the release of his mother on the fourth anniversary of her arrest. The imprisonment of the ...

Myanmar's embattled junta has banned anyone eligible for military conscription from leaving the country without permission, ...

Every morning, Mohammad*, 32, watches his 12-year-old daughter, Fatima*, waking up with the same enthusiasm – putting on her worn-out uniform, neatly braiding her hair and sprinting to the government ...

To mark Saturday’s fourth anniversary of the military coup, The Irrawaddy breaks down the devastating impacts of junta rule ...

The interior and border affairs ministers have switched jobs in the government shakeup, while the woman given the thankless task of attracting tourists to war-torn Myanmar has been sacked.

The six-month extension is intended to buy time for the military’s long-promised election, but conditions in the country are ...

Four years ago today, a military junta in Myanmar seized power from the country's democratically elected government. They sent tanks into the streets and detained the country's president, as well as ...

Peace prospects look bleak in Myanmar as a civil war rages despite international pressure on the military four years after it ...

Four years after Myanmar's military seized power in a coup, the country is in the grip of a bloody civil war that has driven ...

Myanmar’s military government on Friday announced another six-month extension of its mandate to rule in preparation for ...

Myanmar's military deposed the elected government led by Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi. She remains in jail and the country is mired in a brutal civil war.

EU issued a statement on the fourth anniversary of the military coup in Myanmar reiterating its strongest condemnation of the regime's violence and calling for an end to all atrocities.