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

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

After seven years of medical school in Myanmar, May finally achieved her goal of becoming a doctor. But a month after she ...

BANGKOK -- A powerful ethnic armed group in western Myanmar claimed Friday to have scored a major victory in the war against the ruling military, even as neighboring nations at a meeting in ...

Members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations gathered to discuss the Five-Point Consensus the bloc agreed to in ...

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

Regime officials launched a diplomatic blitz this year, turning to China, India and even Iran for support as it lost more ...

A multi-day trawler carrying more than 100 suspected illegal emigrants lost its course and drifted towards the sea off the ...

The Karen National Union claims it has recaptured the Karen “capital” of Manerplaw, which it lost to the Myanmar military in ...

In decades of on-off fighting since independence from Britain in 1948 the military had never lost a regional military command until last August, when the Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army ...

The junta still controls the major cities and remains "extremely dangerous" according to the UN special rapporteur on Myanmar. But it has lost significant territory over the past 12 months - see ...