Threats and coercion are spreading through Mandalay Region as the conscript-starved regime tries to force young people into ...

Attacks by the group, the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army, were used as a pretext by the Myanmar military to launch a campaign ...

In February 2024, Myanmar’s junta declared mandatory military service for men aged 18 to 35 and women aged 18 to 27. Those who do not comply face up to five years in prison. More recently ...

Myint Lwin of Des Moines admitted he was driving drunk when he hit and killed 47-year-old Parreh Ngar last year.

A Des Moines man was sentenced to 25 years in prison after pleading guilty in a 2024 vehicular homicide that killed one. On May 24, 2024, authorities responded to reports ...

Security officials in Bangladesh arrested the leader of a Rohingya insurgent group on charges of illegal entry, sabotage and terrorist activities in the South Asian nation, where there are more than 1 ...

Individuals worked in the compound guarded by armed militia & the money earned was converted to crypto with help of finance centres that facilitated the conversion, it is learnt.

The Irrawaddy discussed disinformation and the impacts of propaganda with author Ma Thida (San Chaung), who is the current chair of the Writers in Prison committee of PEN ... and freedom of expression ...

Eighteen Bangladeshi victims of human trafficking, who were held captive in a "scam centre" in Myanmar, have finally returned home.  They arrived in Dhaka on a Thai Airways flight at 12:45am today (19 ...

Eighteen Bangladeshis, who were victims of human trafficking and had been imprisoned in "scam centres" in Myanmar, are returning home tonight.  They will arrive in Dhaka at 12:45am on a Thai Airways ...