BANGKOK (AP) — Peace prospects look bleak in Myanmar as a civil war rages despite international pressure on the military four years after it seized power from an elected civilian government.

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. The PDF’s No. 1 Military Region in ...

Myanmar’s military has extended its state of emergency for another six months as it struggles to maintain its increasingly fragile grip on power, with fighting raging on multiple fronts across ...

Myanmar’s junta continues to list conscription-age women despite its denials that it is planning to draft females for military service. A Thingangyun Township resident in Yangon told The Irrawaddy: “A ...

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Malaysian PM Anwar Ibrahim, Chief Adviser (head of the interim government) of Bangladesh Muhammad Yunus, the United Nations Secretary-General’s Special Envoy on Myanmar Julie Bishop and Non-Executive ...

“so it usually falls victim to unjustful killing,” Van Nguyen wrote in a Jan. 19 Facebook post. Researchers said they named the new species after Nikolay Poyarkov, “in recognition of his contribution ...

Like others desperate for work, he was kidnapped and put to work in one of the online scam centres that operate just across the Thai border in Myanmar, according to his account and statements by ...

the Yangon Zoo, is set to celebrate its 119th anniversary this week, amidst the challenges facing Myanmar. The Yangon Zoological Gardens or Yangon Zoo as it is called today, has a chequered ...

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