A long-dormant conscription law was enforced last year as the army reeled from a string of battlefield defeats to ethnic ...

Press gangs prowl the streets of Mandalay and Bagan, snatching people on their way to or from work on trumped-up charges or for no reason at all.

The junta has strengthened its mandatory recruitment law, requiring those who meet the age and health criteria for military ...

The regime says it has no plans to conscript women for military service but it is making lists of eligible women in Yangon ...

The changes, announced on January 23, 2025, have sparked criticism from political groups and legal experts, who say the new rules will increase oppression in the country. The amendments include 59 new ...

Four years after seizing power, Myanmar’s generals are holding on but fighting an increasingly dire battle for survival, ...

It has now been four years since the Myanmar military launched its cataclysmic coup against the democratically elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi on February 1, 2021, starting a civil war that has ...

An analysis of the conflict throughout 2024 found that as the military’s grip on power weakened, it launched relentless waves ...

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.