Myanmar's junta has moved Aung San Suu Kyi from prison to house arrest while its forces regain battlefield momentum after years on the defensive. The military, bolstered by new conscripts and selective ceasefires, has reversed some losses despite recent ...

The civil war is, in many respects, a continuation of civil conflict dating back to the 1950s. Then, the government of the newly independent Burma was beset by an ethnic and communist insurgency. It soon lost control of almost all of its territory, except the Irrawaddy Valley.

Voters queued at polling stations in Myanmar on Sunday to vote in a controversial election the military junta says will return democratic rule, nearly five years after it seized power from an elected government, unleashing a brutal civil war it has yet to win.