American foreign policy complicates an already difficult situation for those reporting on the civil war in Myanmar.

Myanmar’s military rulers are holding the first elections since the 2021 coup, and life in the country’s biggest city is fraught with anxiety ...

Voting will be held in different parts of the country in three phases, with the second on January 11 and the third on January ...

The junta’s polls, which will be held in three phases starting on December 28, are intended to strengthen military rule by erecting a façade of civilian government.

Citizens in Myanmar have started voting in an election for the first time in the five since that country's military coup, but ...

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.

Nearly five years after the coup, Myanmar is poorer, hungrier, and plagued by blackouts. Few believe the upcoming election will change anything.

A woman prays at a Chinese temple in the Chinatown area of Yangon on Jan. 29 on the first day of the Lunar New Year of the Snake. (Photo by Sai Aung MAIN / AFP) Over the past four years, Myanmar has ...

As activists marked the fourth anniversary of Myanmar's military coup on February 1, 2025, old protest photos in Thailand ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. Even before the massive earthquake that struck Myanmar and parts of Thailand today ...

Four years ago today, a military junta in Myanmar seized power from the country's democratically elected government. They sent tanks into the streets and detained the country's president, as well as ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. Last week, Yogita Limaye, a correspondent at the BBC, filed a dispatch from Mandalay, the second-largest city in Myanmar, which ...