Myanmar, embroiled in civil war since a military coup in 2021, has become a major hub for organized crime. The country leads ...

COP climate summit so dismal that many governments and analysts questioned whether the annual meetings are even worth holding ...

The Irrawaddy looks back at the key players that shaped Myanmar in 2024, a year in which the junta suffered serious military ...

Min Aung Hlaing’s propaganda mill went into overdrive in 2024, touting tourism, climate solutions, medical excellence, and ...

With the sudden collapse of the al-Assad regime in Syria, analysts and fighters in other long running civil wars are ...

Regimes fell in Syria and Bangladesh, marking unexpected defeats against a rising tide of authoritarianism in the world.

Myanmar (Burma) has surged into the top three of the 2025 Emergency Watchlist, propelled by an increase in conflict in the climate-vulnerable country. Violence in the Southeastern Asian country has ...

The Moken, a group of indigenous people from Thailand and Myanmar, once sailed freely between the archipelago of 800 islands ...

The once formidable Myanmar military is cracking from within - riddled with spies secretly working for the pro-democracy ...

Last month, two key members of the anti-junta Brotherhood Alliance – Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA) and Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA) – said they were willing to ...

The currency, the kyat, has lost two-fifths of its value against the dollar this year. Nearly half of Myanmar’s people now live in poverty, according to the World Bank. This calamity has forced ...

After a brutal, months-long stand in Myanmar’s Rakhine state, this was the moment that the military conceded defeat at the barracks of border guard police unit five – and in doing so ...