BANGKOK — The military regime that seized power in Myanmar 3 1/2 years ago extended a state of emergency in the civil war-wracked country for another six months, saying Wednesday it needs time ...

More than three years after overthrowing a democratically elected government, the Myanmar military is battling to hold on to power as a protracted civil war in the Southeast Asian country draws in ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. On Monday morning Myanmar time, the Myanmar military staged a coup, its first ...

The Myanmar military issued a chilling warning ahead of Saturday’s Armed Forces Day: any protesters risked being shot “in the head and back.” Demonstrators, meanwhile, were determined to ...

BANGKOK — About two weeks into a major offensive against Myanmar’s military-run government by an alliance of three well-armed militias of ethnic minorities, an army captain, fighting in a ...

But the statement appeared to be hollow, with reports just a day later that the military’s bombing campaign and ground offensive were continuing unabated in Kachin state in Myanmar’s north.

BANGKOK--Myanmar’s military government on Saturday activated for the first time a decade-old conscription law that makes young men and women subject to at least two years of military service if ...