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

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.

Regime patrols in Mandalay have begun stopping pedestrians and motorists to search mobile phones for VPNs and social media posts.

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

The umbrella group Kachin Political Interim Coordination Team says it remains committed to overthrowing the junta despite ...

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

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

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 ...

KPPA reports worsening conditions, no family access or medicine, and a recent inmate death as Myanmar’s military tightens ...

USDP chair Khin Yi, a longtime regime enforcer, met with prominent nationalists in Yangon to gain their support for Min Aung ...

Eleven of convoy’s original 17 supply vessels survive repeated ambushes in setback for Kachin resistance forces fighting to ...