He told CNA that he hopes Myanmar’s military regime would free his mother and other political prisoners, and return the ...

The six-month extension is intended to buy time for the military’s long-promised election, but conditions in the country are ...

The number of mass killings of civilians via airstrikes, drone attacks, shelling, missile attacks, and through landmines and ...

As activists marked the fourth anniversary of Myanmar's military coup on February 1, 2025, old protest photos in Thailand ...

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

Myanmar’s military seized power in a coup, and the country’s economy, already hammered by the pandemic, started to buckle.

A visit to resistance-held Karen State reveals the impact of four years of war, and the determination of ordinary citizens to ...

Residents in Myanmar turn to solar power kits to combat frequent blackouts caused by political instability and civil war.

Even the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) refused to register him as a prisoner. That’s when I realised: if I stayed in Myanmar, my father would die in prison – and I would never be ...

A Myanmar rebel group said on Jan. 31 that its members killed two prisoners in a rare admission of deadly violence as it ...

Class goes on for anti-junta students and professors deep in the jungle of Myanmar since the military ousted the country’s civilian leaders and seized power in a coup in February 2021.

Four years after Myanmar’s military coup sparked gunfighting, torture, rape and arson in Rakhine state, young Rohingya men ...