The Irrawaddy looks at two key ethnic armies that are fighting to prop up the regime—one in southern Shan and the other in Sagaing Region.

On Tuesday evening, the Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon, Myanmar, was filled with excitement as 32 teams gathered for the ...

When a Myanmar resistance fighter helped capture junta troops, he never expected to find his own brother among them ...

(AP Photo/Saul Loeb, Pool, File) An unidentified legal official from Kamayut district court speaks outside the residence of ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi as the home is auctioned in Yangon, Myanmar, ...

The court-ordered auction followed a bitter decades-long legal dispute between Suu Kyi and her brother, Aung San Oo, who has sought an equal division of the property. Each time the house has gone ...

The court-ordered auction followed a bitter decades-long legal dispute between Suu Kyi and her brother, Aung San Oo, who has sought an equal division of the property. Advertisement Article continues ...

FILE - Myanmar's pro-democracy opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, right, and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton walk through the garden after meetings at Suu Kyi's residence in Yangon ...

(AP Photo/Aung Shine Oo) “After four years ... in Yangon, Myanmar. (AP Photo/Thein Zaw) The ethnic minorities have been fighting for decades for greater autonomy from Myanmar’s central ...

Fleeing the economic ruin that followed the coup, and the threat of conscription into a military they loathe, Myanmar exiles in Thailand say that their safety comes with a new set of problems ...

PREMIUM 24 Akbar Road Her name was Daw Khin Kyi and she was the widow of Burma’s independence hero Aung San. After his assassination, she first served as a minister. In 1960, she was appointed ...

With the shift to a quasi-civilian government under president Thein Sein in 2011, Myanmar experienced a brief ... Kyaw took this as a sign of progress. Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy ...