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Observers say the junta chiefs claim that the military will eventually exit politics is meaningless in a system engineered to preserve its dominance.

Like British colonial pacification campaigns, and modern-day crackdowns, the new US strike force targets a borderland that has long attracted aggressive interventions.

Residents say transnational online fraud operations have relocated to nearby town on the Thai border as regime demolishes KK Park and Shwe Kokko compounds.

A Thai soldier was killed and thousands of civilians evacuated as the two sides traded accusations over renewed clashes along their disputed border.

Sihasak Phuangketkeow met Min Aung Hlaing and other top officials, urging caution along the border and deeper cooperation on narcotics and online scams.

Following online outrage, revolutionary groups clarify that they attended a separate workshop from junta representatives, and no official or unofficial contact took place.

The Taang army is blocking resistance forces from retaking the northern Shan town following its China-brokered handover.

Each time Russian ships turn up for a joint exercise with the Myanmar Navy, the regime emerges smarter and better equipped to fight the resistance.

Farmers abandon traditional crops amid conflict and economic collapse that has also driven opium production to decade-high levels.

The Mae Sot border checkpoint has been ordered closed for seven days after new fighting between the Myanmar military and Karen fighters.

The latest seizures add to the growing international pressure on sprawling cyber-fraud operations across Southeast Asia.

The coup leader told DSA graduates that modern technologynot manpowernow determines victory, as Chinese drones and Russian systems bolster the juntas battlefield push.

Airstrike in Sagaing Region also injured children and adults as the regime intensifies indiscriminate attacks on civilian areas in the run up to this months vote.

Nearly 1,000 foreign nationals, mostly Chinese, are refusing to be evacuated to Thailand as regime forces step up attacks on Min Let Pan, the armed group said.

Evidence surfaces of severe abuse by Peoples Defense Forces in Karenni State and Magwe.

Lack of opportunity drives tens of thousands of young Myanmar people into the scam centers on the Thai borderand greed keeps them there. The Irrwaddy spoke to one former worker.

This week, our editors discuss what the juntas rigged election will achieve, and whether the U.S. is likely to intervene in Myanmar and bring about a transition to genuine democracy.

The UN warned in a new report that rising poppy cultivation and shifting heroin routes couldexpand Myanmars role in the global drug trade.

Min Aung Hlaing signals that civil servants should support junta-backed USDP politicians in this months election.

Decades of fear, mythmaking and foreign entanglements have shaped a military mindset that blocks reform and deepens the countrys isolation.

Migrant communities from Thailand to Korea are resisting pressure to cast advance ballots as the regime seeks legitimacy for a vote widely dismissed as a sham to cement military rule.

Thant Sin, who held the lucrative post of chair of the fuel import committee, seems to have fallen victim to turf wars in the juntas top echelons.

Three homes were destroyed after the TNLA handed the ruby hub back to the junta, triggering fresh clashes and forcing civilians to flee.