The release of Aung San Suu Kyi and around 20,000 fellow political prisoners will be the most crucial step towards ending the conflict in Myanmar, the country’s government-in-exile has said. The National Unity Government, or NUG, which comprises former ...

A UN Special Rapporteur on Friday released a report urging the UK government to condemn Myanmar's upcoming military junta-orchestrated election that may be a 'sham' as well as continue its support

It is hard to imagine a more bloodless act of contempt by the Myanmar junta for its own population than the military’s direct bombing of a public hospital late on Wednesday, less than three weeks out from the first stage of staggered sham elections.

More than four years after its establishment, the country’s opposition government has come under increasing pressure to reform.

The elections are an attempt to gain the legitimacy, at home and abroad, that currently eludes the military regime.

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko arrived in Myanmar on a goodwill visit, state media reported Friday, becoming only the second foreign leader to visit the Southeast Asian country since it came under military rule in 2021.

Rebels belonging to Myanmar’s Karen ethnic minority have launched an anti-government offensive in a rare effort to seize a town in the eastern part of the country, the guerrillas and military government said Friday. Clashes in the town of Kawkareik in ...

STORY: Myanmar’s junta leader on Thursday transferred power to a civilian-led interim government ahead of a planned election. But the announcement made on state media was nominal, with coup leader Min Aung Hlaing remaining in charge of the war-torn ...

Opium poppy cultivation in Myanmar surged to its highest level in a decade this year as the nation engaged in a civil war remains one of the world’s primary suppliers of illicit drugs, according to a United Nations survey.

Myanmar’s military government accused rebel forces in the eastern state of Kayah of firing at a passenger plane as it was preparing to land Friday, wounding a passenger who was hit by a bullet that penetrated the fuselage. Rebel groups denied the allegation.

A few dozen early voters in Myanmar's widely criticised elections cast their ballots at the country's embassy in Bangkok on Saturday as polls opened for citizens abroad. Meanwhile early voting abroad has begun at a few Myanmar embassies,