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The Shan State chief minister and military officials visited UWSA and NDAA territories as the junta pushes for cooperation ahead of its planned December vote.
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Regime forces, reinforced by a flotilla from Mandalay, have reoccupied a battalion headquarters that fell to the Kachin Independence Army in February.
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The Arakan Army has started a fresh offensive after a month without fighting.
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Rank-and-file soldiers who retreat are often shot dead or beaten by officers lurking behind the lines, according to a young conscript who defected to the ethnic Arakan Army.
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Friday, August 8, 2025
Daily Stories from The Irrawaddy for 08/08/2025
Thursday, August 7, 2025
Daily Stories from The Irrawaddy for 08/07/2025
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After orchestrating the brutal 2007 Saffron Revolution crackdown and serving as military intelligence chief, Myint Swe spent his final years as a ceremonial figurehead for the current junta.
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The junta has hired GOP-linked DCI Group for $3 million a year to help rebuild ties with the US and soften criticism ahead of its widely condemned election, filings show.
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In 2021, a stolen election shattered the democratic hopes of the younger generation—unleashing a tech-fueled revolution with a momentum 1988's uprising couldn't sustain.
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Regime soldiers advancing on Mogoke from recently reclaimed Nawnghkio engage in intense clashes with Ta-ang National Liberation Army forces determined to hold strategic mining town.
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The International Trade Union Confederation says the planned polls are "a cosmetic trick to rebrand a brutal military regime as a legitimate civilian government."
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Wednesday, August 6, 2025
Daily Stories from The Irrawaddy for 08/06/2025
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Moe Aung, who also once served as Navy chief, has disappeared from the new regime lineup amid a massive data leak and reshuffle.
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A UK-based group traced "anti-jamming" modules from a European manufacturer to Chinese resellers and finally to the junta's drone fleet.
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Deputy chief of Southeastern Command among dozens detained after hundreds of trucks intercepted on Karen border route, severely disrupting trade.
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The regime is mobilizing hundreds of troops to recapture a strategic police station in Pale Township that was seized by allied resistance forces in June.
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No matter how legitimate their struggle against the junta, we need greater scrutiny of how ethnic armed groups administer the territories they conquer, says David Scott Mathieson.
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Regime patrols in Mandalay have begun stopping pedestrians and motorists to search mobile phones for VPNs and social media posts.
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This week's Irrawaddy editorial discussion asks if staging an election will give Min Aung Hlaing his dream job.
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