The Latest Breaking News from Myanmar

The rain was relentless the night Mohammad Kaisar fled for his life from his home in Myanmar's Maungdaw township.

"There are multiple types of victims, the people who are being scammed around the world, but also the people who are trafficked, held against their will and who are exposed to violence."

Arakan Army fighters seize 14 of 17 townships in Rakhine, pledge to liberate entire frontier state in western Myanmar.

State media in Myanmar say the military has regained control of a strategic town in eastern Kayah state from the opposition’s armed forces after nearly two years

Critics see plan as attempt to legitimise and maintain military rule

Myanmar’s military-appointed election commission has announced that elections will begin on Dec. 28

Electoral commission announces date for first phase of elections widely seen as lacking credibility.

Myanmar's junta said Monday that long-promised elections will start on December 28, despite a raging civil war that has put much of the country out of its control, and international monitors slating the poll as a charade.

An airstrike by Myanmar’s military on the town of Mogok, the center of the Southeast Asian country’s lucrative gem-mining industry, has killed at least 21 people including a pregnant woman

A study of March's Myanmar earthquake has found that strike-slip faults don't necessarily repeat past behavior, meaning the San Andreas fault could unleash a bigger quake than any seen before.

South Africa instituted a case against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in the Hague in late December 2023, claiming Israel was violating the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide through its actions in Gaza, and requesting provisional measures. Human rights law scholar…