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), ...

Myanmar's military carried out a paraglider strike on a village that killed at least 20 people including children, and wounded more than 50 others, according to a member of a resistance group, ...

Myanmar's military has announced the first phase of a general election to be held in late December, in a poll widely seen as an attempt to lend the junta legitimacy following its 2021 coup. State-run ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. In the years since the Myanmar military launched a coup in February 2021, the ...

'Alarming' hunger crisis in Myanmar's Rakhine, WFP warns Around 16 million people in Myanmar are acutely food insecure, WFP says Rohingya are arriving in Bangladesh in much poorer health, aid group ...

A 30-year-old protester was taking part in a gathering against Myanmar’s ruling junta on a festival day in the central region of Sagaing on Monday when he heard the distinctive noise of fan blades ...

Buddhist devotees lighting oil lamps at Botataung pagoda during celebrations of the full moon day of Thadingyut, the end of Buddhist Lent, in Yangon, Myanmar. This picture is of before the attack was ...

Junta leader Min Aung Hlaing had said the polls would be "free and fair", but this notion has been widely dismissed Myanmar will begin its general elections on 28 December, its military government ...

BANGKOK: Myanmar’s military carried out a paraglider strike on a village that killed at least 24 to 40 people including children, and wounded more than 50 others, according to a member of a resistance ...