Myanmar's Shan State has experienced some of the fiercest fighting in an ongoing civil war At least 28 people were killed by the Myanmar army at a monastery in southern Shan state, an insurgent ...

Two years after it seized power, Myanmar's military is looking weak - and beatable The military-installed president of Myanmar has warned that the country is in danger of breaking apart if the ...

Violence against civilians surged, with thousands jailed, tortured and killed. A UN Office of the United Nations High Commissioner (OHCHR) report estimates 5,350 civilian deaths and over 3.3 million ...

The past year has seen a dramatic shift in momentum in Myanmar’s internal conflict, which emerged from the coup launched by the country’s ruling military junta in February 2021. Three ethnic ...

The beauty in this corner of Shan state, in northeastern Myanmar, might seem a respite from the country’s brutal civil war. Instead the blooms are a symptom: It is all opium poppy in these ...