The three-phase elections that the Tatmadaw (the armed forces) announced to elect a civilian government in Myanmar began on Sunday. But with the principal political group in that country, the National ...

Myanmar's military has ruled the country for most of its post-independence history, presenting itself as the only force capable of guarding the fractious Southeast Asian nation from rupture and ruin.

A man uses an electronic voting booth at a polling station during the first phase of Myanmar's general election in Yangon on December 28, 2025. Voting begins in Myanmar's heavily restricted polls, ...

Amid a ruinous civil war, the military government is holding elections that are widely seen as a sham, as the main opposition remains barred or jailed. By Richard C. Paddock Myanmar’s military ...

Myanmar Elections 2025 LIVE Updates: Myanmar cast vote for the first time in nearly five years, after a military coup in 2021 led to a civil war in the country. Many called the elections a "sham", ...

According to reported figures, Myanmar's military-backed party won over 80 per cent of the lower house seats where voting was held in Sunday. The pro-military party in Myanmar, Union Solidarity and ...

Myanmar’s military rulers claimed to have dominated the first phase of national elections widely dismissed as a sham but which were nevertheless notable for China’s growing role. The army has long ...

vershadowed by civil war and doubts about the credibility of the polls, voters in Myanmar were casting their ballots in a general election starting on Sunday, the first since a military coup toppled ...

he majority of Myanmar’s citizens will not head to the polls set to be held in four days. Rather than the national vote, a more reliable indicator of political trajectories in 2026 is whether the ...

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) will hold public hearings in a landmark case next month accusing Myanmar of committing genocide against its Rohingya community, the top United Nations court ...

BANGKOK – Four Myanmar nationals caught in Bangkok on Dec 23 with 10 heavy-lift cargo drones they planned to smuggle to their home country will be deported there, Thai police said. and myriad rebel ...