Also this week, the junta boss urged parties to prepare for ‘impossible poll’, and quelled China’s anger while shielding ...

The Karenni Nationalities Defense Force and its allies have ambushed junta forces on the road to Pekon in southern Shan State that leads to Naypyitaw.

Human Rights Watch called on Washington to reinstate funding for humanitarian, pro-democracy and independent media projects.

Indiscriminate junta airstrikes on homes, schools, hospitals, and displacement camps are killing Myanmar’s children. The only ...

The situation in Myanmar “continues to pose an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy” of the US, according to his executive order.

Three international election monitoring groups say any polls held in the current circumstances in Myanmar can only be a sham aimed at prolonging military rule.

Electricity, internet services and fuel supply to five areas of Myanmar were to be cut off on Wednesday morning, the deputy ...

The interior and border affairs ministers have switched jobs in the government shakeup, while the woman given the thankless ...

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.

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

The regime’s election plan and scam center crackdowns were on the agenda as junta representatives met officials from Belarus, Brazil, China and ASEAN nations in January.

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