To mark Saturday’s fourth anniversary of the military coup, The Irrawaddy breaks down the devastating impacts of junta rule on all aspects of life in Myanmar.

The resistance People’s Defense Force killed at least 22 junta troops and captured eight others alive in an ambush in Mandalay Region’s Natogyi Township on Thursday.

Also this week we locate the junta’s emergency minister in Russia studying how to deal with a falling glacier.

Oil worth US$150 million from Magwe onshore fields has gone straight to the junta to fuel airstrikes on civilians and other ...

Lack of electricity affects every aspect of Yangon residents’ daily lives, from work to sleep, and now even hotter weather is ...

No elections can be held under a state of emergency, meaning the regime’s vaunted polls will now have to wait until at least the second half of 2025.

Seven US-funded clinics, servicing around 80,000 refugees from Myanmar, have closed since the new US administration froze funding.

In his New Year’s address, Peng Daxun dropped his previous anti-junta rhetoric and focused on working with China to boost ...

The UN’s IIMM said impunity was emboldening the perpetrators, mainly junta forces, to commit further violence, and urged that steps be taken to prosecute them.

Deprived of opportunity and security by the coup, they scrape by doing hard jobs for little pay in Thailand, living in fear ...

Myanmar’s armed conflict has disrupted cement production while the regime is promising large quantities will be imported in ...

A visiting Chinese public security minister said scam-center gangs employ more than 100,000 callers, with those in Myanmar’s ...