The Myanmar junta has beaten, strangled, electrocuted and raped people held in detention facilities in a campaign of “systematic torture,” United Nations investigators have alleged.

The Independent Investigative Mechanism for Myanmar said victims were subject to beatings, electric shocks, sexual violence, ...

United Nations investigators said on Tuesday they have found evidence of systematic torture by Myanmar security forces and ...

Myanmar’s military on Thursday ended a four-year state of emergency and formed a caretaker administration ahead of planned ...

A military air strike in central Myanmar's Mandalay region killed five people and injured two others on Aug. 9, according to ...

Despite a lack of fighting in the area, the military bombed and shelled resistance-controlled territory west of the Chindwin ...

Ethnic armed group says declaration is unjustified; regime delegation promises to relay request after visiting Mongla and ...

The attacks came just days before Karen Martyrs’ Day, and mark an escalation of pressure on the group ahead of the regime’s ...

The US announced on July 24 that it was lifting sanctions against several allies of Myanmar's ruling military junta and their ...

Myanmar's junta-appointed acting President U Myint Swe died Thursday morning, weeks after he was declared unable to perform ...

One of Myanmar’s most powerful ethnic groups pledged on Monday to block elections in areas it controls, rejecting polls the ...

Myanmar’s military leadership lifted a state of emergency more than four years after it took power in a coup, a necessary ...