To mark Saturday’s fourth anniversary of the military coup, The Irrawaddy breaks down the devastating impacts of junta rule on all aspects of life in Myanmar.

Monks have been seeking spiritual enlightenment at these sites on steep cliffs, inside caves and atop an extinct volcano for ...

Myanmar’s military government on Friday announced another six-month extension of its mandate to rule in preparation for ...

Archaeologists found Viking skeletons over 1,000 years old buried with a crystal and other treasures. They're improving our understanding of how wealthy Vikings once lived.

The countries on this list are experiencing extreme crises that make them highly dangerous. Traveling to these high-risk ...

As Myanmar’s civil war heads into a fifth year, anti-junta forces are opening universities and colleges as part of their ...

Myanmar's military government has released more than 6,000 prisoners and has reduced other inmates' sentences as part of a mass amnesty marking the 77th anniversary of independence from Britain on ...

Myanmar’s military rulers announced an amnesty for 5,864 prisoners to mark Independence Day, state media reports. Members of a Myanmar military honour guard take part in a ceremony to mark ...

NEW DELHI/GUWAHATI: Manipur CM N Biren Singh expressed "regret" and apologised to people of the state Tuesday for nearly 20 months of intermittent ethnic bloodletting on his watch, saying it was ...

BANGKOK--Martial law was declared in several areas of military-run Myanmar on Thursday ... The Cabinet, in theory the nation’s top administrative body, in practice has less power than the ...

The Church in Myanmar has urged the country's military rulers to protect places of worship following a series of attacks by the army in Christian-majority areas of the civil war-torn Southeast Asian ...