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

Myanmar’s military government on Friday announced another six-month extension of its mandate to rule in preparation for ...

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 ...

The U.N. Human Rights Office said the military ... an armed resistance that has now led to a state of civil war. Ethnic minority militias and people’s defence forces that support Myanmar ...

Myanmar’s military government on Friday announced another six-month extension of its mandate to rule in preparation for ...

Myanmar completed four years of military rule. On this day in 2021 General Min Aung Hlaing ousted the National League for ...

Four years after seizing power in a dawn coup that ousted an elected civilian government, Myanmar's embattled ruling generals ...

Myanmar’s ... five decades of earlier military rule. The takeover sparked an armed resistance movement, with powerful ethnic minority militias and people’s defense forces that support Myanmar ...

Four years after the military coup on February 1, 2021, Myanmar ... represented by a variety of ethnic armed organisations (EAOs) and people’s defence forces (PDFs) in all parts of the ...

Myanmar’s 2024 census was almost certainly the most contentious – and deadly – ever conducted. Enumerators and their heavily armed ... 167 military battalions fell to resistance forces ...