The newly formed Kayan National Army (KNA), which unites a number of ethnic armed groups, wants to cooperate with other groups fighting the junta and is loyal to the civilian National Unity Government ...

Beijing’s influence in Myanmar permeates multiple levels of engagement between the two neighbors.

BANGKOK--One of Myanmar’s most powerful ethnic minority groups battling the military government said it captured an airport serving the country’s top world-class beach resort, marking the ...

Myanmar for several decades has seen a cycle of cease-fires bringing in intermittent periods of relative peace, but none have ...

One day I stumbled across a group of scarecrows hiding in the scant ... in disgust. He was an ethnic Afar, a descendant of camel herders, the old kings of the desert. His people called the recent ...

Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s son speaks to The Irrawaddy about the conditions faced by his mother and other political prisoners in ...

Three well-armed militias launched a surprise joint offensive in northeastern Myanmar a year ago, breaking a strategic ...

Similarly, in the early 2000s, there were widespread calls to release Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi from house arrest ... contrasting with the modern Egyptian ethnic profile. It seems we have a double ...

Before the offensive, the military’s control had seemed firmly ensconced with its vast superiority in troops and firepower, ...

Bobby Nasution is suspected of managing the Medan Block nickel mine since 2021. He met with Abdul Gani Kasuba before becoming ...

Many believe he was also responsible for instigating riots in Jakarta and other cities in May 1998, which targeted the ethnic Chinese ... have to look across to Myanmar, in many ways a similar ...