The junta has hired GOP-linked DCI Group for $3 million a year to help rebuild ties with the US and soften criticism ahead of its widely condemned election, filings show.

After orchestrating the brutal 2007 Saffron Revolution crackdown and serving as military intelligence chief, Myint Swe spent his final years as a ceremonial figurehead for the current junta.

The International Trade Union Confederation says the planned polls are “a cosmetic trick to rebrand a brutal military regime as a legitimate civilian government.”

Regime soldiers advancing on Mogoke from recently reclaimed Nawnghkio engage in intense clashes with Ta-ang National Liberation Army forces determined to hold strategic mining town.

In 2021, a stolen election shattered the democratic hopes of the younger generation—unleashing a tech-fueled revolution with a momentum 1988’s uprising couldn’t sustain.

No matter how legitimate their struggle against the junta, we need greater scrutiny of how ethnic armed groups administer the territories they conquer, says David Scott Mathieson.

The regime is mobilizing hundreds of troops to recapture a strategic police station in Pale Township that was seized by allied resistance forces in June.

Deputy chief of Southeastern Command among dozens detained after hundreds of trucks intercepted on Karen border route, severely disrupting trade.

A UK-based group traced “anti-jamming” modules from a European manufacturer to Chinese resellers and finally to the junta’s drone fleet.

Moe Aung, who also once served as Navy chief, has disappeared from the new regime lineup amid a massive data leak and reshuffle.

The umbrella group Kachin Political Interim Coordination Team says it remains committed to overthrowing the junta despite Chinese pressure to lay down arms.

Historian Sam Dalrymple traces the five partitions of Britain’s Indian Empire, from Burma to the Arabian Peninsula, and the legacies of conflict they left behind.

A depleted junta flotilla carrying reinforcements from Mandalay has docked in the strategic town of Bhamo amid ongoing clashes with the Kachin resistance.

Rebranded regime resuspends key privacy laws despite lifting emergency rule.

Eleven of convoy’s original 17 supply vessels survive repeated ambushes in setback for Kachin resistance forces fighting to seize strategic town.

KPPA reports worsening conditions, no family access or medicine, and a recent inmate death as Myanmar’s military tightens restrictions at the prison.

USDP chair Khin Yi, a longtime regime enforcer, met with prominent nationalists in Yangon to gain their support for Min Aung Hlaing’s bid to become “elected president.”

Regime mouthpiece New Light of Myanmar accuses the staunchly anti-junta government in Dili of “cavorting with terrorists” over friendly contacts with the parallel National Unity Government.

Condemning the regime’s rigged poll won’t stop global acceptance—the resistance must take control of the narrative through coordinated force and political legitimacy

Also this week, the junta imposed harsh penalties to protect its bogus poll, overlooked education in new cabinet, and text-spammed the resistance.

Private Chinese security companies are increasingly blurring the line between protecting Beijing’s investments and outright interference in conflicts abroad, warns Rishan Sen.

From Gen. Aung San to U Ko Ni, Myanmar’s long history of assassinations highlights the moral dilemmas and lasting impact of political violence.

The imposition of martial law suggests the regime will struggle to hold elections in those townships unless it takes control of them ahead of the polls.

An American author imagines giving the junta boss a piece of his mind in this bold cocktail of the textual and the visual.

After ending the state of emergency, Min Aung Hlaing gave his regime a new name as he positions himself to claim the presidency in December’s military-run vote.

Beijing’s campaign of coercion and fragmentation aims to sabotage Myanmar’s revolution and help preserve junta rule as the guarantor of China’s regional interests.

Special Rapporteur Tom Andrews says lifting sanctions on junta allies undermines efforts to curb arms flow and emboldens a regime that has killed thousands of civilians.

After Wednesday’s tsunami warning for the Pacific, we ask: what is a tsunami, and how can it affect coastal communities?

New electoral law carries harsh punishments for anyone seeking to interfere in the regime’s stage-managed December poll.  

The Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army says the regime has breached the terms of the April truce agreed in China.

Ferrari & Associates helped Myanmar junta-linked entities and individuals get taken off America’s sanctions list, highlighting long-standing ties between U.S. law firms and junta-linked clients.

This week’s Irrawaddy editorial discussion asks if the anti-regime groups can adapt to their weaknesses like the regime appears to be doing.

Human Rights Watch accuses the victorious ethnic army of imposing “policies of oppression” on Rohingya people, including arson, pillage, and forced labor.

Daw Myo Myo Aye, founder of the Solidarity Trade Union of Myanmar, was arrested last week and has not been heard from since.