Myanmar's embattled junta has banned anyone eligible for military conscription from leaving the country without permission, ...

Myanmar marks four years of a bloody civil war on Saturday with anti-regime forces holding the upper hand on battlefields ...

In 2020, the most recent available figures, the International Labour Organization estimates that over four million Myanmar nationals were working overseas. According to the military conscription law, ...

An analysis by The Irrawaddy shows a sharp rise in the number of people killed in junta airstrikes last month. The vast majority of the victims were civilians.

Four years since the military took over Myanmar, millions of people have been displaced, and hundreds of thousands have fled ...

The regime says it has no plans to conscript women for military service but it is making lists of eligible women in Yangon ...

The six-month extension is intended to buy time for the military’s long-promised election, but conditions in the country are ...

Myanmar has been locked in a civil war triggered by the military’s overthrow of the elected civilian government of Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi.