YANGON--Myanmar’s ruling junta has declared martial law in parts of the country’s largest city as security forces killed more protesters in an increasingly lethal crackdown on resistance to ...

Breaking the rules can bring a jail sentence of up to three years. The military service law, authored by a previous junta in 2010 but brought into force only in February last year, requires those ...

Myanmar experienced 85 out of nearly 300 internet shutdowns globally last year, primarily orchestrated by its military amid civil war. The shutdowns, ...

The junta chief said the country would hold an election in December or January, the first in the war-torn nation since the ...

In 2022, the junta-stacked election commission announced that Suu Kyi’s NLD would be dissolved for failing to re-register ...

In 2023, the junta-stacked election commission announced the NLD would be dissolved for failing to re-register under a tough new military-drafted electoral law. "We want the NLD to come back," a ...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) urged the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights in a Thursday letter to stop the Malian junta’s crackdown on political ... and the freedom of expression within the ...

The junta has lost control of swathes of the country ... A long-dormant conscription law was enforced last year as the army reeled from a string of battlefield defeats to ethnic armed groups ...

In 2022, the junta-stacked election commission announced that Suu Kyi's NLD would be dissolved for failing to re-register under a tough new military-drafted electoral law. Junta-appointed ...