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The US and other Western countries have been reducing their funding, prioritising their defence spending instead.
Myanmar’s military drafts thousands in first year of conscription drive Forced conscription has failed to change the course of Myanmar’s grinding civil war, and many are refusing to serve.
Myanmar holds minute of silence as death toll from earthquake tops 2,700 Elderly woman pulled from rubble 91 hours after being buried as Myanmar remembers victims of powerful quake.
Muslims join Buddhist, Christian fighters to topple Myanmar’s military Muslims join fight under multiethnic leadership as groups once marginalized are now embraced by Myanmar’s revolution.
US President Trump’s tariffs loom over gathering in Malaysia’s Kuala Lumpur which will also feature US-Russia talks.
Reporting from behind shifting front lines in Myanmar’s civil war Journalists with the Shan State-based news outlet Shwe Phee Myay continue to report amid civil war and military repression.
President Donald Trump has announced that the United States would impose a 35 percent tariff on imports from Canada next ...
The US Department of State advises American citizens to avoid South Sudan due to an ongoing armed conflict. It has in the ...
Local women harvest poppies under the midday sun in southern Shan State, one of Myanmar’s main opium-producing regions [Fabio Polese/Al Jazeera] ...
The sound of children at play echoes through the verdant lanes of one of the dozens of refugee camps on the outskirts of Cox’s Bazar, a densely populated coastal town in southeast Bangladesh. Just for ...
Speaking with Al Jazeera, a retired Indian government official, who has advised New Delhi on its Myanmar policy for a decade, pointed out the dissonance in the Indian versions: Did Indian soldiers ...