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

"We strongly urge the [Burmese] military regime to cease violence, including harming civilians and civilian infrastructure, ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

By bno - Bangkok bureau Nine countries, including the United States and the United Kingdom as well as the European Union, issued a joint statement on January 31, 2025, to mark the fourth anniversary ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Myanmar military government is currently facing its greatest challenge since taking power and is on the defensive in much of the country ...