Myanmar

Resistance soldiers were forced to leave Myawaddy, a key trading center on the border with Thailand, weeks after capturing it.

Even through the Myanmar army’s communications blackout, residents of a conflict zone find moments of grace, and occasional connectivity, away from the battlefield.

April is typically hot in South and Southeast Asia, but temperatures this month have been unusually high.

Questions you may have about the ongoing war in Myanmar, explained with graphics.

A devastating, yearslong civil war is heating up, but it still hasn’t attracted broad international notice.

A new generation of democracy fighters has taken up arms in Myanmar. If they push into the nation’s heartland, the rebels could unseat a military that’s had the country in its grip for decades. Hannah Beech, a New York Times reporter, embedded with one of the rebel groups on the front lines in Karenni State, where resistance forces said they held more than 90 percent of the territory.

Rebel fighters have handed Myanmar’s army defeat after defeat, for the first time raising the possibility that the military junta could be at risk of collapse.

The unexpected relocation was attributed to a heat wave, and came as the military government is facing increasingly emboldened rebel forces.

The fall of Myawaddy, on the Thai border, was one of the most significant gains by resistance forces since a 2021 military coup.

The country’s military rulers have signaled a new wave of detentions and, rights groups say, conditions for existing prisoners have deteriorated.