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Hundreds of protesters took to the streets of Myanmar's biggest city Yangon on Thursday, setting fire to an army uniform and chanting calls for democracy five months after a military coup ousted ...
Myanmar’s Min Aung Hlaing posed in a suit – it should have been a prison uniform - COMMENT: Seeing the architect of so many of Myanmar’s ills welcomed in Bangkok beggars belief, writes ...
The “clearance operation” began at 3 a.m. in western Myanmar, the soldier says. The colonel in charge told the troops in Myanmar’s 565th light infantry battalion their task was to wipe out ...
Over the past six months, Myanmar’s armed forces, also known as the Tatmadaw, have increasingly begun to disintegrate. Following the junta’s return to power in a 2021 coup, the military seemed ...
Bloody conflict has splintered many families in Myanmar over the past four years. But for one set of siblings, a surprise reunion was joyful, if bittersweet. By Richard C. Paddock The soldier was ...
A Myanmar court jailed a woman for six months on Monday for a Facebook post "ridiculing" the country's army chief and the color of a new uniform, the latest in an escalating crackdown on free speech.
“It appears they were lined up and shot in the head,” Khu Ree Du, a rebel soldier who saw the bodies, said by telephone. Since Myanmar’s army — which has a long history of atrocities ...
Myanmar’s government has enforced a compulsory military service law as the junta continues to battle armed ethnic militias and resistance forces on multiple fronts across the nation.