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

Magwe hosts over a dozen of the junta’s ordnance factories, known by the Burmese acronym KaPaSa. KaPaSa 14, which produces ...

An analysis by The Irrawaddy shows a sharp rise in the number of people killed in junta airstrikes last month. The vast majority of the victims were civilians.

A Myanmar rebel group said on Jan. 31 that its members killed two prisoners in a rare admission of deadly violence as it ...

The Rohingya crisis began in August 2017 when violence in Myanmar’s Rakhine state forced nearly one million Rohingya Muslims to flee to Bangladesh. In February 2021, Myanmar’s military ...

Young Rohingya men are being forced to fight as foot soldiers on both sides of Myanmar’s brutal civil war - SPECIAL DISPATCH: ...

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 ...

The 37-year-old mother, from Maungdaw, a town in Rakhine State in the western part of Myanmar, knew she and her family had to flee. For three days, Ms Fatima, her husband, and their four children ...

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

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