The US lifted restrictions on several cronies once sanctioned for arming the junta. The move came after a letter from Min ...

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

Tens of thousands of civilians are evacuated from the Thai border area as clashes enter a second day, but fighting eased off ...

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

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

In 2002, junta No. 2 Maung Aye brought centuries of military pride to a golf match with Thai officers; his men won, but were ...

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

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 ...

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, ...

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