YANGON: For decades, China has sought to maintain influence among armed ethnic groups in Myanmar in lawless border areas while also providing support to military leaders in charge of the South-East ...

Myanmar was once an insider tip for travelers, a symbol of the global triumph of democracy. But since a military coup in 2021 ...

While Myanmar struggles in an unending cycle of civil war, authoritarianism, and ethnic violence, the international community ...

China has swung its support more fully behind Myanmar's junta as data show it widening airstrikes that have also killed ...

China is a major ally and arms supplier to Myanmar’s junta, but it also maintains ties with ethnic groups fighting the ...

The head of Myanmar’s military government has invited ethnic rebels to hold peace talks to end armed conflict across the ...

As regional leaders meet in Laos this week, UN special rapporteur Tom Andrews urges them to do more to starve the regime of ...

David Eubank, director of Free Burma Rangers (FBR), a nonprofit humanitarian group operating in rebel-controlled areas, said since April his team has been stalked by drones that have dropped munitions ...

VIENTIANE, Laos — Southeast Asian leaders gathered Wednesday for an annual forum that will focus on the civil war in Myanmar and territorial tensions in the South China Sea, two key challenges ...

Andrews urged Australia and like-minded nations to help prosecute Myanmar’s leaders for genocide and to back moves to bring war crimes charges before the International Criminal Court in the Hague.

A spokesman for the Myanmar government did not respond to calls or messages. Inquiries to the military’s official media office and its embassy in Singapore were not answered. In war zones across ...

lobal efforts to stop Myanmar's civil war were "clearly not working", a UN expert warned Thursday as he urged leaders to starve the ruling junta of "money, weapons and legitimacy". Describing a ...