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

It was a year of wars, election surprises, royal health scares and the reign of new queens. Within this maelstrom, one ...

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.

Pope Francis prayed that the Jubilee Year may become “a season of hope” and reconciliation in a world at war and suffering ...

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

In decades of on-off fighting since independence from Britain in 1948 the military had never lost a regional military command ...

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

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

The sudden and unexpected fall of Bashar al-Assad could foreshadow the fate of Myanmar’s besieged military junta.

Nearly four years into a grinding civil conflict, the economy is in ruins, and people — even professionals with degrees — are ...