Four years after seizing power, Myanmar’s generals are holding on but fighting an increasingly dire battle for survival, ...

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

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 latest fighting has centred on the headquarters of the junta’s Military Operations Command 21 (MOC-21) northeast of Bhamo ...

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

Myanmar military junta soldiers attacked a village in the Sagaing Region and killed six civilians, including three who were ...

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 ...

The international community and global media may overlook the ongoing civil war in Myanmar (also known as Burma and Brahmadesh), but the ground situation indicates perpetual chaos. Thousands have been ...

The current notoriety of the Shwe Kokko New City Project can only be understood within the context of Myanmar’s past and ...

As a harbinger of US foreign policy directions, President Trump's sudden suspension of US$45 million (4.9 billion baht) for ...

Although many might regard it as an irrelevant backwater, it’s an emergency that should command the world’s attention ...

seizing strategic towns and the military’s northeast command. China showed its displeasure with the new rebel attacks by shutting down border crossings, cutting electricity to Myanmar towns and ...