On September 15, 2025, the location transmitter of an Iranian oil tanker called Reef pinged near Iraq’s offshore Basrah Oil Terminal. Reef was actually several hundred kilometers away at the Iranian ...

YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — Myanmar began a second round of voting Sunday in its first general election since the military takeover five years ago. Voting expanded to additional townships including some ...

Myanmar's military-backed Union Solidarity and Development Party is leading after the first phase of a contentious general election, early results cited by state media showed, in the first vote since ...

A coup set off a brutal civil war and made a poor country poorer. Now its military rulers are seeking a veneer of legitimacy by holding elections. A coup set off a brutal civil war and made a poor ...

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Fighting has caused the spread of illnesses like malaria and cholera. In a worst-case scenario, the situation could threaten regional health security, experts say. People wait at the Mae Tao Clinic in ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Myanmar’s military acknowledged an airstrike on a hospital, claiming opposition groups used it as a base; local ...

WASHINGTON, Nov. 19 (UPI) --Lawmakers warned Tuesday that the United States is running out of time to confront Burma's conflict, urging for stronger U.S. response as the military junta tightens its ...

Myanmar’s planned elections are widely expected to be a sham, entrenching military rule and excluding the NLD, which undermines ASEAN’s Five Point Consensus and risks deepening the country’s ...

When a magnitude 7.7 earthquake in Myanmar led to a skyscraper collapse in Bangkok this spring, search and rescue teams—human, canine, and machine—struggled with dangerous debris, thick dust, and ...

In recent months, Myanmar’s military junta has regained ground lost to organized resistance groups. Ahead of the regime’s plans to hold national elections, continual fighting has pushed the state into ...

BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar's military carried out a paraglider strike on a village that killed at least 24 people including children, and wounded more than 50 others, according to a member of a resistance ...