In 2021, a stolen election shattered the democratic hopes of the younger generation—unleashing a tech-fueled revolution with a momentum 1988’s uprising couldn’t sustain.

Regime soldiers advancing on Mogoke from recently reclaimed Nawnghkio engage in intense clashes with Ta-ang National ...

The International Trade Union Confederation says the planned polls are “a cosmetic trick to rebrand a brutal military regime ...

A UK-based group traced “anti-jamming” modules from a European manufacturer to Chinese resellers and finally to the junta’s drone fleet.

Moe Aung, who also once served as Navy chief, has disappeared from the new regime lineup amid a massive data leak and ...

Deputy chief of Southeastern Command among dozens detained after hundreds of trucks intercepted on Karen border route, ...

No matter how legitimate their struggle against the junta, we need greater scrutiny of how ethnic armed groups administer the territories they conquer, says David Scott Mathieson.

The regime is mobilizing hundreds of troops to recapture a strategic police station in Pale Township that was seized by allied resistance forces in June.

This week’s Irrawaddy editorial discussion asks if staging an election will give Min Aung Hlaing his dream job.

Although emergency rule was officially lifted last week by the military-dominated National Defense and Security Council (NDSC), junta boss Min Aung Hlaing—who chairs both the rebranded regime and the ...

A depleted junta flotilla carrying reinforcements from Mandalay has docked in the strategic town of Bhamo amid ongoing ...

Historian Sam Dalrymple traces the five partitions of Britain’s Indian Empire, from Burma to the Arabian Peninsula, and the ...