Four years after seizing power in a dawn coup that ousted an elected civilian government, Myanmar's embattled ruling generals are making their most concerted effort to gain legitimacy - by pushing to hold another election.

Myanmar’s junta now only controls 21% of the country. Even if the regime can be ousted, there are increasing fears the country will split along ethnic lines.

Myanmar marks four years of a bloody civil war on Saturday with anti-regime forces holding the upper hand on battlefields across the country amid growing hopes that the junta led by Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing will buckle and be defeated, perhaps by the end of the year.

Pro-democracy crusader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi of Myanmar (also known as Burma and Brahmadesh) recently completed a total of 19 years of detention under the military rulers .

Seven refugee hospitals in war-torn Myanmar have been closed after the U.S. froze foreign aid - with patients carrying oxygen tanks being turned out onto the streets. The clinics, run by the International Rescue Committee (IRC) along the Thai-Myanmar border,

UN investigators said Thursday that serious international crimes had been committed in the four years since Myanmar's military coup, warning this would only worsen unless the perpetrators faced justice.

As Myanmar’s military junta has announced the intention to hold elections this year, China has supported the move whereas the West and much of the international community called for deferment until af

Southeast Asian foreign ministers told Myanmar's junta to prioritise a ceasefire in its civil war over fresh elections during ... in 2020 polls won resoundingly by the Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy. The junta then ...

Southeast Asian foreign ministers told Myanmar's military government to prioritize a ceasefire in its civil war over fresh elections during a meeting in Malaysia on Sunday. Myanmar's armed forces seized power in February 2021 on unsubstantiated claims of massive electoral fraud in 2020 polls won resoundingly by the Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy.

China says it has brokered a ceasefire between Myanmar’s military government and a major ethnic rebel group in the country’s northeast.

ASEAN secretary-general Kao Kim Hourn said some of the foreign ministers on Jan. 19 also "called for the release of Madam Aung San Suu Kyi," the prominent pro-democracy figure who has been detained since the 2021 coup.

LANGKAWI, Jan 19 — Southeast Asian foreign ministers told Myanmar’s junta to prioritise a ceasefire in its civil war over fresh elections ... polls won resoundingly by the Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy.