Military enforcer and USDP chief Khin Yi is rewarded with the speaker post, while the deputy’s role is taken by veteran apparatchik Maung Maung Aye.

The head of the notorious Military Intelligence and close aide to Min Aung Hlaing has been promoted to Army chief, ...

UN special rapporteur Tom Andrews warned that shrinking aid and global distraction could leave Myanmar’s worsening crisis further neglected.

In this second installment of a four-part series, The Irrawaddy’s Aung Zaw examines how the coup dismantled NLD reforms and restored military control over the economy.

Three-hour bombardment of Rakhine detention camp that killed 116 POWs was conducted after weeks of aerial reconnaissance, according to high-ranking survivor.

Local residents report fences advancing into Shan State territory amid official silence and an atmosphere of growing fear.

Observers say the 2008 charter’s entrenched military safeguards make meaningful reform unlikely despite Min Aung Hlaing’s latest pledge.

Never before in the history of the Myanmar military has a Military Intelligence commander risen to commander-in-chief: in this week’s talk, our editors try to make sense of the conundrum.

The ethnic Arakan Army’s pincer movement is closing in on junta positions on the outskirts of the city but faces heavy fortifications and thousands of civilians held as human shields.

In foreign policy as in everything else, the new “civilian” government will only be the old junta in new clothes, observers predict.

Amid daily airstrikes on civilians and widespread condemnation of its war crimes and crimes against humanity, the Myanmar regime’s air force on Thursday held a commissioning ceremony for four fighter ...

Conflicting reports indicate that regime troops are either held up at the mined and booby-trapped gates of Tagaung or have already entered the town.