Young Rohingya men are being forced to fight as foot soldiers on both sides of Myanmar’s brutal civil war - SPECIAL DISPATCH: ...

A Myanmar rebel group said on Jan. 31 that its members killed two prisoners in a rare admission of deadly violence as it ...

After videos of two violent killings went viral online, the Arakan Army in Myanmar has admitted its troops killed two ...

The six-month extension is intended to buy time for the military’s long-promised election, but conditions in the country are ...

A long-dormant conscription law was enforced last year as the army reeled from a string of battlefield defeats to ethnic ...

To mark Saturday’s fourth anniversary of the military coup, The Irrawaddy breaks down the devastating impacts of junta rule ...

An analysis by The Irrawaddy shows a sharp rise in the number of people killed in junta airstrikes last month. The vast majority of the victims were civilians.

Myanmar’s junta now only controls 21% of the country. Even if the regime can be ousted, there are increasing fears the ...

YANGON—A Myanmar rebel group said on Friday its members beheaded two prisoners in a rare admission of deadly violence as it ...

The 37-year-old mother, from Maungdaw, a town in Rakhine State in the western part of Myanmar, knew she and her family had to flee. For three days, Ms Fatima, her husband, and their four children ...

The Rohingya crisis began in August 2017 when violence in Myanmar’s Rakhine state forced nearly one million Rohingya Muslims to flee to Bangladesh. In February 2021, Myanmar’s military ...

Misrepresented images continued to swirl on social media around the unrest in Myanmar's western Rakhine state that is riven ...