Fighting has caused the spread of illnesses like malaria and cholera. In a worst-case scenario, the situation could threaten ...

Myanmar’s military junta is once again presenting elections as a solution to national collapse. More than three years after the February 2021 coup, Senior General Min Aung Hlaing’s regime claims that ...

As the regime presses ahead with a tightly controlled first phase of voting on Sunday, large swathes of the country remain ...

Nearly five years after a military coup in 2021 unseated its civilian government, Myanmar has become extremely fragmented. A civil war flared after the coup, killing thousands and leaving upward of 18 ...

The vote in Myanmar, widely seen as a sham, is a bid for legitimacy by the military government. It is also a way for Beijing ...

From Chinese meddling to staged scam-center crackdowns and a sham election, The Irrawaddy looks back at the key events and figures in another difficult year for Myanmar.

A deadly standoff jolted India to stitch together a huge network of roads, tunnels and landing strips needed to move soldiers ...

All of this marks a stunning reversal for Myanmar’s revolutionaries. At the end of 2024 they appeared to have the junta on ...

Southeast Asia as a region was found to have the largest share of potential dhole habitat (56%). Among individual countries, ...

Beyond the United States and China, Russian interests are deeply embedded in Myanmar, while a growing Pakistan and Turkey ...

A resolution to the two nations’ acrimonious border dispute seems remote amid their current conflict, but there could be one ...

Senior functionary of the Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) and Secretary, Border Management Rajendra Kumar on Sunday ...