Lightning resistance offensive seized six townships and a regional command, enabling the Arakan Army to push into the regime’s military-industrial heartland.

The six-month extension is intended to buy time for the military’s long-promised election, but conditions in the country are ...

China’s apparent demands for a retreat from the northern Shan State capital Lashio is an unacceptable breach of Myanmar’s sovereignty, argues analyst Wai Min Tun.

Myanmar's junta extended a state of emergency by six months on Friday (January 31, 2025), four years after it seized power triggering a civil war that has claimed thousands of lives. The country ...

Magwe hosts over a dozen of the junta’s ordnance factories, known by the Burmese acronym KaPaSa. KaPaSa 14, which produces ...

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.

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

By bno - Bangkok bureau Nine countries, including the United States and the United Kingdom as well as the European Union, ...

On Friday, Myanmar’s military regime extended a state of emergency for another six months. However, it is struggling to retain its grip on power, said observers. The junta has lost huge ...

YANGON: Yangon resident Aung Ko Gyi browses stalls for a solar power kit he can use to weather the blackouts that have become a constant feature of life in Myanmar four years on from a military coup.

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 ...