Yangon: Myanmar s deposed democratic leader Aung San Suu Kyi marked her 80th birthday in junta detention on Thursday, serving ...

According to the report, a new report by the International Crisis Group (ICG) says that Rohingya rebel groups have stopped ...

To mark detained Myanmar leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s 80th birthday, The Irrawaddy presents a timeline of the key events in her life.

T he military’s decision to change the name of the country from ‘Burma’ to ‘Myanmar’, which was announced on 18 June 1989, caused a great deal of confusion. The military claimed that ‘Burma’ was a ...

A 7.7 magnitude earthquake hit central Myanmar, causing widespread destruction in Mandalay, Naypyidaw, Sagaing, Magwe, and Bago regions, along with areas in Shan State.

Myanmar’s Muslim population — the Rohingyas most acutely, but also other Muslim groups — face severe persecution. Hindu temples have not been exempt from the military’s rampage. And even though the ...

The post-independence turmoil is best illustrated by the fact that two divisions of Kuomintang soldiers entered Myanmar’s Shan state and stationed themselves there without consent for a decade ...

WASHINGTON — In Myanmar, a relatively new ethnic armed group known as the Arakan Army has recently taken control of 15 out of 17 townships in the war-torn country's western Rakhine state.

Myanmar’s military government has announced that provisional results of a census taken in October put the Southeast Asian nation’s population at about 51.3 million, a slight drop from the last ...

In 2017, the Myanmar military launched a clampdown against Rohingya Muslims living in the state, forcing around 750,000 Rohingya to flee to neighboring Bangladesh.

Addressing the Geneva-based Human Rights Council, Nicholas Koumjian, the head of the Independent Investigative Mechanism for Myanmar (IIMM), said that in many instances, civilians were “not just ...

An inclusive vision for Myanmar's future. This cooperative strategy reflects the BPLA's core values, which extend beyond military objectives to include a commitment to social inclusivity.