The chaotic country is now a magnet for criminal syndicates, particularly from China, destabilizing law enforcement across ...

Myanmar’s junta forces now control less than half the country after suffering major battlefield setbacks in 2024 – including ...

Michael Martin is an adjunct fellow at Washington's Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). He served as a ...

The beauty in this corner of Shan state, in northeastern Myanmar, might seem a respite from the country’s brutal civil war. Instead the blooms are a symptom: It is all opium poppy in these ...

Release was part of Independence Day pardons granted to many people; most spent time behind bars due to gambling offences.

Since Myanmar's military staged a coup and ousted the democratically elected government in February 2021, the country has been ... a large offensive in Shan state in late 2023.

While the country’s resistance forces struggle to contain the spread of methamphetamines, there is evidence that the regime ...

Myanmar’s military government has announced that provisional results of a census taken in October put the Southeast Asian ...

The Arakan Army's growing territorial gains, and seemingly undeterred momentum, have raised questions about the rebel group's ...

Shan State is also bordered by China ... was designed to “help develop a Myanmar-led and Myanmar-owned solution to address the country’s current challenges.” He went on to pledge India ...

Myanmar’s National Unity Government (NUG) seeks to deal a decisive blow to the country’s military rulers in 2025. Myanmar's National Unity Government (NUG) Acting President Duwa Lashi La ...