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The Arakan Army claims to have sunk three junta ships travelling on the Kaladan River in Rakhine State, Myanmar, resulting in up to 900 deaths. The sinking is one of the largest losses in the navy's history.
2024-02-13

Myanmar's military junta announces that all men aged 18 to 35 and all women aged 18 to 27 will be required to complete two years of mandatory military service, amid territorial losses to anti-military junta forces in the ongoing civil war.
2024-02-11

Representatives from Myanmar's ruling military junta hold talks with three rebel groups, facilitated by China, amid an ongoing rebel offensive.
2023-12-11

Myanmar's military junta commutes 38 death sentences to life imprisonment as part of a wider amnesty.
2023-05-5

Myanmar's State Administration Council pardons 2,153 political prisoners to mark Vesak Day.
2023-05-3

Two years after Myanmar's military overthrew the country's democratically-elected government, the State Administration Council extends the country's state of emergency for another six months, thereby postponing the general election initially scheduled for August 1.
2023-02-1

The International Court of Justice rejects the Myanmar military junta’s challenge of the case against the country for its role in the Rohingya genocide.
2022-07-22

The ASEAN Summit takes place virtually without the participation of Myanmar, following the bloc's decision to disinvite the country's military junta chief Min Aung Hlaing for refusing to cooperate on a peace process.
2021-10-26

On the six-month anniversary of the coup, military junta leader Min Aung Hlaing names himself Prime Minister "in order to perform the country’s duties fast, easily and effectively", according to the ruling State Administration Council.
2021-08-1

Myanmar's Ambassador to the United Nations Kyaw Moe Tun addresses the UN in New York, calling for the international community to take the "strongest possible action" to remove the military junta from power.
2021-02-26