An airstrike by Myanmar’s army on a village under the control of an armed ethnic minority group has killed about 40 people and injured at least 20 others, officials of the group and a local charity ...

Violence against civilians surged, with thousands jailed, tortured and killed. A UN Office of the United Nations High Commissioner (OHCHR) report estimates 5,350 civilian deaths and over 3.3 million ...

The UN Refugee Agency has called on states to prioritise life-saving actions as hundreds of stateless Rohingya refugees from ...

The Irrawaddy looks back at the key players that shaped Myanmar in 2024, a year in which the junta suffered serious military ...

Southeast Asian country is now the world’s largest producer of opium and one of the largest manufacturers of synthetic drugs ...

Sources reported that in the 2024 population and household census, only 145 townships successfully collected 100% of the ...

A centuries-old partnership between fishermen and critically endangered Irrawaddy dolphins in Myanmar is threatened by ...

Nearly half of Myanmar’s people now live in poverty, according to the World Bank. This calamity has forced a new cadre of women in Myanmar into sex work: doctors, teachers, nurses and other ...

Paul Scully, whose family left Myanmar for Britain, saw ‘horrible things’ as Rohingya Muslim minority suffered violence and persecution ...

There is still no basis to consider them as refugees yet. For now, this is regarded as a case of human trafficking. ..

Here’s a look at some of the best images taken by Globe photographers last month: the aftermath of hurricane Dorian’s landfall in the Bahamas, students head back to school, confrontations at ...

Sunday’s game between the Buffalo Bills and New York Jets was a special one for three women with the local organization Stitch Buffalo — it was their first ...