The Arakan Army (AA) has emerged as a key challenger to Myanmar’s ruling generals since a 2021 military coup sparked war and today controls nearly all of western Rakhine state.

“President U Myint Swe passed away at 8.28 am this morning,” said a junta statement, adding the 74-year-old had died in a hospital in the capital Naypyidaw. “It is hereby announced that the funeral of ...

Satellite images collected by Maxar, an American space technologies company, show the Mandalay region before and after the earthquake. A neighborhood of shacks and buildings in Myanmar's second ...

A Myanmar junta air strike on a rebel-occupied ruby mining hub killed 13 people on Saturday, according to a resident and a ...

THE BASICS: Myanmar, formerly known as Burma, was already embroiled in turmoil since the army seized power from the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi on Feb. 1, 2021, triggering widespread ...

A military fighter jet crashed and burned in an area that has seen intense fighting during Myanmar's civil war, with a rebel group claiming to have shot it down while state-run media reported it ...

Myanmar’s junta chief Min Aung Hlaing meets with earthquake survivors gathered at a hospital compound in Naypyidaw on March 28, 2025. Myanmar’s junta government doesn’t often want others to ...