On the first anniversary of the junta's activation of the conscription law, The Irrawaddy looks at the key facts and figures ...

To mark Saturday’s fourth anniversary of the military coup, The Irrawaddy breaks down the devastating impacts of junta rule ...

The junta government thrives on violence, deception and a systematic erosion of Myanmar’s democratic institutions.

Four years ago today, a military junta in Myanmar seized power from the country's ... come out onto the streets to protest - hundreds of thousands of people, if not millions across the country. DETROW ...

Crimes against humanity, a growing hunger crisis, and over 2,600 rebel groups: Myanmar’s brutal civil war continues to worsen ...

Myanmar’s military government has announced another six-month extension of its mandate to rule in preparation for elections it has said will be held this year, as the country enters its fifth year of ...

A long-dormant conscription law was enforced last year as the army reeled from a string of battlefield defeats to ethnic ...

Amid the country's long-running civil war, more people are being killed or injured by landmines in Myanmar than any other country in the world, according to the International Campaign to Ban ...

The takeover sparked an armed resistance movement, with powerful ethnic minority militias and people’s defense forces that support Myanmar’s main opposition now controlling large parts of the country.

Myanmar's ruling military has extended a state of emergency for another six months, state media reported on Friday (Jan 31), ...

The lives of millions in Myanmar, already ensnared in a widening conflict that has decimated the economy, are on the line. By ...

The military declared a state of emergency in 2021 when it arrested the country's leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, in an army ...