The Kachin Independence Army (KIA), the armed wing of the Kachin Independence Organization (KIO), is preparing to resume rare ...

Also this week, the junta squeezed labor agencies for conscripts abroad, while Min Aung Hlaing boosted his family’s EV ...

Experts say Min Aung Hlaing hopes to weaponize Beijing’s plans for a railroad through Myanmar against ethnic armies and ...

The regime has announced that it is working on a deal with Beijing to establish a bilateral company to protect Chinese ...

Ethnic army says it has surrounded Taungup, Maungdaw, Gwa and Ann, home to the regime’s Western Region Command HQ.

The retreating junta is deploying fighter planes, drones, and artillery as the Chin Brotherhood Alliance comes closer to ...

During his visit to China, Min Aung Hlaing inspected BYD’s headquarters in Shenzhen. His son, Aung Pyae Sone, imports the ...

In growing desperation as its pool of military conscripts dwindles, the regime is pushing overseas employment agencies to ...

The Bamar People’s Liberation Army’s commander Maung Saungkha tells The Irrawaddy that the group is bringing its fighting ...

A recent trip to Beijing by two old spooks has shone a spotlight on the continuing role of previous regimes’ military intelligence officers.

Fortify Rights alleges four Thai soldiers tortured and killed a Myanmar man in Thailand’s Mae Sot on Jan. 12, with another Myanmar national framed for the crime.

Beijing’s renewed embrace of the junta has its own logic, but it is based on many assumptions about Myanmar, the military and ...