Myanmar was plunged into civil war by the military’s 2021 coup, and it instituted conscription two years ago to bolster its ranks as it battles resistance groups as well as ethnic minority armies that ...

Resistance forces in Mandalay and Karen State’s Myawaddy attack regime installations with homemade rockets and bombs ahead of nationwide polls.

Early voter turnout is thin as polling stations open for the first phase of staggered elections that have been widely dismissed as a sham.

On Jan. 25, the junta hopes, another 63 townships will go to the polls, whether its writ runs there or not. But even that is ...

Military regime exports repression abroad as Seoul embassy targets protesters for rallying against its sham poll.

From Chinese meddling to staged scam-center crackdowns and a sham election, The Irrawaddy looks back at the key events and ...

From Chinese meddling to staged scam-center crackdowns and a sham election, The Irrawaddy looks back at the key events and figures in another difficult year for Myanmar.

Myanmar junta lifts Yangon's curfew days before its sham elections—claiming "stability" amid ongoing civil war and repression.

Scrutiny of vote widely regarded as a fraud to entrench military rule will be confined to regime’s supporters at home and abroad.

The bombing of Mrauk-U Hospital exposes the regime’s impunity, the failure of international pressure and the emptiness of its ...

The junta-organized election has been engineered in a myriad subtle and unsubtle ways to ensure there can only be one winner: the military regime.

Scores of regime soldiers have been killed in the attempt to drive the Arakan Army from Point 666, a hilltop base that guards the approach to the regime’s cherished KaPaSa-16 arms factory.