Myanmar's military-appointed election body has announced the winners of the first phase of its three-part general election.

The political party backed by Myanmar’s ruling military claims it won a commanding lead in the initial round of the first ...

A coup set off a brutal civil war and made a poor country poorer. Now its military rulers are seeking a veneer of legitimacy ...

The voting for Parliament is almost sure to favor the ruling military junta, which is stage-managing the polls. Still, some ...

President Joe Biden entered office less than two weeks ago on a pledge to restore the U.S. as a defender or democracy at home and abroad. His administration is already facing a foreign-policy crisis ...

Analysts suggest the primary goal of the election is to transition junta chief Min Aung Hlaing into a “civilian” presidency. This would provide a legalistic framework to end the state of emergency in ...

Myanmar’s minority Muslim population, the Rohingya, are fleeing into Bangladesh by the thousands. The United Nations estimates that approximately 370,000 of approximately 1.1 million Rohingya have ...

Myanmar has begun its first general election since the military seized power in 2021, with voting taking place in phases amid ...

The end may not be near, but the end is clear—according to those who have kept a close eye on Myanmar’s ongoing civil war, since a military coup toppled its civilian government in 2021. While the ...

Myanmar's dominant pro-military party claimed an overwhelming victory in the first phase of the country's junta-run elections ...

The arrest of five journalists in Myanmar this week is raising alarms among press watchdogs that the government is clamping down on newfound journalistic freedoms. Myanmar authorities said they ...

Flies hovered over the blackened and swollen bodies of men and boys, lying side-by-side on a piece of tarpaulin, in blood-soaked combat fatigues, amid preparations for a rushed cremation in the Tamu ...