Whoever wins faces the daunting task of feeding the West African country’s poor and navigating the interests of global powers seeking critical minerals, analysts say.

Myanmar’s junta said on Tuesday that detained former leader Aung San Suu Kyi is “in good health,” a day after her son told Reuters he has received little information about the 80-year-old’s condition and fears she could die without him knowing.

Two years after a major rebel offensive left much of Myanmar's borderlands in resistance hands, the junta has found its footing on the battlefield, according to Reuters interviews.

A coup set off a brutal civil war and made a poor country poorer. Now its military rulers are seeking a veneer of legitimacy by holding elections.

Commander-in-Chief of Myanmar's armed forces, Senior General Min Aung Hlaing delivers his speech at the IX Moscow conference on international security in Moscow, Russia, on June 23, 2021. Alexander Zemlianichenko/Pool via Reuters The Myanmar army is ...

CONAKRY, Guinea (AP) — Guinea’s junta leader submitted his bid Monday to be a candidate for the presidential election in December, contradicting his earlier promise not to run for the office after he led soldiers in seizing power four years ago.

Myanmar's junta chief Min Aung Hlaing offered his country advice on civic participation as he voted in a general election on Sunday after five years of military rule and civil war. However, junta spokesman Zaw Min Tun said at the same polling station as Min Aung Hlaing: "This election is being held for the people of Myanmar.

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. With the sudden collapse of the al-Assad regime in Syria, after thirteen years of civil war and the seeming triumph of government forces ...