China has the biggest influence on Myanmar’s civil strife but Russia also has sway, supplying arms to the military junta.

Myanmar's ruling junta is currently vulnerable after sustained fighting by a range of dissident groups, so who are the groups ...

The leader's death completes the generational leadership transition within the three armed groups formed after the collapse of the Communist Party of Burma in 1989. Upon his death in February ...

China's rapid economic growth, accompanied by an equally swift expansion of its military over the past 30 years, has elevated it from a regional po ...

Intense battles in northern Shan state involving the Three Brotherhood Alliance — a coalition of ethnic armed groups made up of the Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army, the Ta’ang National ...

The nationalization of land, forests, inland water transport, and certain public utilities was rushed, in order to disprove the Communist charge that the independence which Burma had won was a fake.