Myanmar has been hammered by a conflict triggered by a 2021 coup in which the military ousted an elected civilian government ...

Amid a ruinous civil war, the military government is holding elections that are widely seen as a sham, as the main opposition remains barred or jailed.

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 ...

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.

New Delhi’s reaction to the demolition of a statue of Hindu deity Vishnu in Cambodia’s Preah Vihear province has been unambiguous, marking a significant intervention by the Indian government into the ...

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 ...