Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. People line up to vote at a polling station during the first phase of Myanmar's general election in Yangon on December 28, 2025. - ...

It may be in the middle of a bloody civil war, but Myanmar potentially stands on the precipice of a new democratic awakening. Despite the immense suffering of Myanmar’s population in recent years, ...

At the time of the military coup of February 1, 2021, I was a lecturer at a university in Myanmar, deeply involved in my academic and research pursuits. The military takeover, however, marked the ...

The Obama administration seemed to take special pride in its policy toward Myanmar. American statecraft had coaxed the country’s reclusive military dictatorship onto a path of democratic ...

Since a military coup in 2021 toppled Myanmar’s democratic government, the country’s army has found itself contending with a tenacious and committed rebel insurgency. The military junta’s opponents ...

Derek Mitchell served as the U.S. ambassador to Myanmar between 2012 and 2016, the first U.S. envoy since 1990. He is now a senior adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), ...

On a typical day, Mai Rupa travels through his native Shan State, in eastern Myanmar, documenting the impact of war. A video journalist with the online news outlet Shwe Phee Myay, he travels to remote ...

Is the Czech Republic, long a stalwart supporter of Myanmar's democracy movement, showing signs of shifting its position as junta representatives secure meetings with high-ranking officials? While ...

The ruling junta says the heavily restricted polls are a return to democracy but critics are wary Five years after Myanmar’s junta ousted the country’s last elected government, triggering a civil war, ...

In the nearly three years that have passed since Myanmar’s coup d’état, the global media has shifted its attention to other crises, from the sudden withdrawal of Western forces from Afghanistan to ...

Former U.S. Ambassador Derek Mitchell argues the United States should assert its leadership in helping shape Myanmar's peaceful, just and... Derek Mitchell served as the U.S. ambassador to Myanmar ...