Manila's resupply missions to troops on a disputed South China Sea atoll will remain purely Philippine operations, the National Security Council said on July 21,…
A South African court on July 19 ordered the national arms regulator to suspend and review all permits granted for the sale of weapons to…
Opponents of Myanmar's junta launched a rocket attack on an airport in the capital but caused no casualties, security sources told AFP on July 17,…
The domes and spires of Myanmar's temple city of Bagan mark an island of calm in the country's raging civil war, but with conflict keeping…
An alliance of Myanmar ethnic minority armed groups said July 14 it had agreed a four-day ceasefire with the junta in northern Shan state following…
Myanmar rescuers have recovered five bodies, including that of a 12-year-old girl, following a boat accident in commercial hub Yangon, the local fire service said.…
Myanmar ethnic minority fighters said July 10 they had seized a town along a key trade highway to China following days of clashes, in another…
Fighting raged for an eighth day around a Myanmar regional military headquarters, where an ethnic armed group had briefly captured a battalion command, one of…
Shipments of aviation fuel are reaching Myanmar despite calls to deprive its military of the resources needed to carry out unlawful air strikes against insurgents…
The Myanmar junta's second-in-command arrived in China on July 6 for an official visit, the junta's information team said, as clashes with ethnic minority fighters…
Six people in Myanmar's biggest city have tested positive for cholera, a junta spokesman said on July 6, adding it had ordered the temporary closure…
Clashes broke out near a regional military command in northern Myanmar on July 3, residents and local media said, in what appeared to be a…
Floods in northern Myanmar have trapped thousands of people in their homes and cut electricity and phone lines, residents and local media said July 2,…
A Myanmar ethnic minority armed group was battling junta troops in a ruby and gem-mining hub on June 28, the group and the junta told…
Myanmar authorities have arrested a Japanese national working for retail giant Aeon for allegedly selling rice at artificially high prices, the junta said, with Tokyo…
The charity Doctors Without Borders will halt medical activities in Myanmar's northern Rakhine state due to an "extreme escalation of conflict" between an ethnic armed…
Myanmar's central bank denied a UN report that the country's military government can still access money and weapons for its war against anti-coup forces, saying…
A Myanmar ethnic armed group clashed with junta troops for a second day in northern Shan state, residents and media said on June 26, with…
Conflict-ravaged Myanmar is "facing challenges" in stemming opium poppy cultivation, the junta said on June 26, months after the UN warned the country had become…
International efforts to isolate Myanmar's ruling junta appear to have dented its ability to purchase new military equipment from overseas, but the military is still…
Myanmar ethnic armed groups seized a popular beach resort town in the west of the country and launched dawn attacks on junta positions in the…
Myanmar’s junta leader, General Min Aung Hlaing, made a rare apology to a prominent Buddhist monastery after its abbot was killed by security forces last…
A first batch of 5,000 conscripts called up by Myanmar's junta will begin duty at the end of this month, military sources told AFP on…
An alliance of Myanmar ethnic armed groups has accused the junta of repeatedly violating a China-brokered ceasefire in the north of the country this month…
The son of Myanmar democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi is "concerned" about her health, he told AFP on June 19, as the Nobel laureate…
