Myanmar’s government announced another extension of its mandate to rule in preparation for elections it has said will be held ...

The Rohingya crisis began in August 2017 when violence in Myanmar’s Rakhine state forced nearly one million Rohingya Muslims ...

The military declared a state of emergency in 2021 when it arrested the country's leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, in an army takeover which reversed years of progress toward democracy after five decades of ...

The resistance People’s Defense Force killed at least 22 junta troops and captured eight others alive in an ambush in Mandalay Region’s Natogyi Township on Thursday.

Aung San Suu Kyi’s son has made a direct plea to the military junta in Myanmar holding her in solitary confinement to release ...

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 ...

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

Myanmar’s fragile, nascent quasi-democracy was snuffed out after less than a decade of experimenting with limited reform and ...

Myanmar’s scam operations are expanding south along Thailand’s border, authorities have told VOA in recent days, and will ...

Pressure is building on Myanmar’s rulers to hold what opposition groups promise will be fraught national elections.

In Myanmar, the military junta has extended the state of emergency for another six months, a move announced just a day before the fourth anniversary of the 2021 coup that overturned the elected ...

(Reuters) - Myanmar's ruling military has extended a state of emergency for another six months, state media reported on Friday, a day ahead of the four-year anniversary of a coup that plunged the ...