A defector tells The Irrawaddy that the regime is recruiting mentally unstable people and men above the maximum age.

The Myanmar Investment Commission this month reported that the energy sector topped foreign investment categories, accounting ...

Today, Pauktaw is a jumble of scorched ruins, collapsed houses, bomb-charred buildings, crumbling properties and empty roads ...

The Yarlung Tsangpo hydropower project in Tibet, envisioned to be bigger than the Three Gorges Dam, threatens a uniquely ...

The two sides accused each other of firing first in a flare-up near historic temples in disputed territory overlapping ...

Seizure of Thabeikkyin would mark third recapture this month, after victories in neighboring Shan State’s Mobye and Nawnghkio ...

Two anti-regime groups in Mon State say they will take “military action” against anyone taking part in the regime’s planned ...

The UWSA’s restart of tin mining reveals how a non-state actor can control global supply chains—and highlights China’s ...

A drone suspected of being used in junta strikes on the KNLA veered into Thai territory and was defused by Thai forces, ...

Tributes pour in for the heavy metal legend who capped his career with a final Black Sabbath show in Birmingham just a few weeks ago.

Student leader Ma Wut Yi Aung succumbed to head injuries sustained under torture, while Mon NLD politician Ko Pyae Sone Aung had been suffering from hypertension and clogged arteries.

Flotilla carrying reinforcements and supplies attacked in Mandalay Region while heading upriver toward Bhamo in Kachin State.