Myanmar’s military junta has billed the election as a return to democracy. International observers, however, have widely ...

NIAMEY, Niger (AP) — Thousands from the junta-led countries in Africa’s Sahel region gathered this week in the Nigerien capital of Niamey, with music and cultural displays, to condemn what they called ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing, head of the military council, inspects officers during a parade to commemorate Myanmar's 80th Armed ...

The head of Niger’s junta, which overthrew democratically elected President Mohamed Bazoum in July, has met with a delegation from the West African regional bloc ECOWAS. During the meeting, the junta ...

Myanmar's parliament is set to convene Monday for the first time since a military coup five years ago, packed with pro-junta ...

As Min Aung Hlaing’s right-hand man, U Aung Lin Dwe signed over 350 orders on his boss’sbehalf to keep the regime running.

Stacked with military allies and ex-generals, the new assembly aims to legitimise a regime the United Nations and EU have branded a sham Five years after armoured vehicles rolled through the streets ...

NIAMEY, Niger (AP) — One week after a deadline passed for mutinous soldiers in Niger to reinstate the country’s ousted president or face military intervention, the junta has not acquiesced. No ...

It has been many decades since war came to Mandalay, the last seat of Burmese kings. But on September 3rd a 107mm rocket cracked the pre-dawn calm, striking a residential area west of the old royal ...

Khin Mar Cho worries for her 4-year-old son as she struggles to scrape together enough food to feed him in a makeshift displacement camp at a crowded monastery in western Myanmar. Soldiers had stormed ...

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — The United States scrambled on Sunday to assess the future of its counterterrorism operations in the Sahel after Niger's junta said it was ending its yearslong military ...