The Department of State criticized the Associated Press for peddling a false narrative on the Trump administration’s overhaul of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and for casting blame ...
Welcome to Foreign Policy’s Southeast Asia Brief. The highlights this week: The Myanmar junta makes a military and diplomatic comeback, earthquakes and typhoons hit the Philippines, Gaza fleet detainees return ...
Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at U.N. efforts to address the Rohingya crisis, an internet blackout in Afghanistan, and the collapse of one of Indonesia’s oldest Islamic ...
On Oct. 16, 1962, U.S. President John F. Kennedy learned that the Soviet Union was building missile bases in Cuba. Soviet ships were on their way to the island nation, ...
U.S. President Donald Trump’s fixation with securing access to rare earth minerals is creating the conditions for a poor strategic decision in Myanmar. According to a recent report, the Trump ...
Four years after he plunged the country into chaos with his 2021 coup, Myanmar’s commander in chief, Min Aung Hlaing, handed power over to an interim government—led by himself. Observers ...
MON AND KAYIN STATES, Myanmar—Before the 2021 military coup in Myanmar, Nai Kyi San’s only firsthand combat experience was fighting against another rebel group: the Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA). “I ...
Along the Tiau River that divides Mizoram in India from Chin State in Myanmar, get-togethers by the water are a common weekend pastime. Since alcohol sales are banned in Mizoram, ...
Internet restrictions and tight media controls initially limited footage of the destruction caused by a massive earthquake in central Myanmar last month. In one of the first videos to trickle ...
When the earth shook in central Myanmar on March 28, many in the Buddhist-majority country waited for the aftermath to undermine the military junta’s repressive rule—reflecting a belief that natural ...
