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

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

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

After videos of two violent killings went viral online, the Arakan Army in Myanmar has admitted its troops killed two ...

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

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

MYANMAR’S ongoing civil war has reached a critical point, with the rise of ethnic armed organisations significantly altering ...

Myanmar’s junta now only controls 21% of the country. Even if the regime can be ousted, there are increasing fears the ...

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 ...

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

Misrepresented images continued to swirl on social media around the unrest in Myanmar's western Rakhine state that is riven ...

Five years after the coup and a protracted civil war, the junta and pro-democracy rebels have failed to consolidate power ...