Analysts say the base in northern Shan’s Kutkai Township is of strategic importance to the junta, which lost at least 30 troops in the attack.

Three children among dead as regime bombs Sagaing town amid fierce clashes with ethnic alliance.

Over 100 non-CDM educators and their relatives were moved to safety by Karenni resistance groups after being abandoned by regime troops amid clashes at Loikaw University.

The Irrawaddy’s latest roundup includes incidents in Shan, Magwe and Sagaing regions.

The rebel army is urging regime personnel in the state to surrender if they want to see their families again.

The troops surrendered with their weapons to PDF and Karen forces after clashes in Kyaikmayaw in which a police station and a junta outpost at a bridge were seized.

The jailing of the unlikely regime critic, a classmate of the junta’s No. 2, follows the purges of three other generals, sparking talk of a power tussle in Naypyitaw.

The Chin National Front says resistance forces have occupied two regime camps in Reh Khaw Da on the main road to India.

Junta troops in Loikaw are blocking evacuation efforts and targeting civilian areas with artillery and airstrikes, residents and volunteers say. 

Kyaw Swar Lin’s blind obedience to Min Aung Hlaing has placed him in pole position to replace the junta leader as military supremo, analysts say.  

Sean Turnell, a former aide to Daw Aung San Suu Kyi who was jailed along with her after the coup, details his 650 days in a Myanmar prison in a new book.

The rebel army has joined attacks on the regime across the rest of Myanmar and reported instant successes with numerous junta personnel detained.

The Ta’ang Women’s Organization says most of the 37 civilian deaths since Operation 1027 began last month have been caused by regime shelling and airstrikes.

Kutkai, Kunlong, Namkham, Muse, Lashio, Hseni, Konkyan and Laukkai townships all face martial law although large areas have already fallen to the Brotherhood Alliance.

Operation 1027 is the culmination of 32 months of popular armed resistance; the end of a brutal military regime is in sight.    

Ming Xuechen and his family are accused of owning a telecom scam compound in Kokang region where Chinese and Thai nationals were massacred last month. 

The KNDF said it captured the outposts in Kayah and southern Shan as part of the ongoing Operation 11.11 against junta forces.

Regime base in Reh Khaw Da trade hub falls after seven hours of fierce fighting.

The ongoing clashes in Rathedaung are the group’s first offensive actions in Rakhine since it entered an informal ceasefire with the junta last year.

In its latest battlefield victory, the Brotherhood Alliance took just 12 days to take full control of the town on the eastern bank of the Salween River in northern Shan.

The Irrawaddy’s latest roundup includes incidents in Shan, Kachin, Kayah and Rakhine states and Sagaing and Mandalay regions.

Volunteers say they cannot reach 2,500 displaced civilians trapped in a monastery by Myanmar junta troops in Hseni Township.

The Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army says it continues to topple regime outposts in the Kokang zone on the Chinese border.

The impact of Operation 1027 continues to spread across northern Myanmar as other anti-regime groups hope to increase their attacks elsewhere. 

Former home affairs minister Lieutenant General Soe Htut has received a five-year sentence from a military court.

Fighting has raged across northern Shan state near the Chinese border since late last month and is still going on.

Also this week, the regime called emergency meetings as a resistance offensive spread, and also beefed up trade and military ties with fellow pariah Russia.   

Fragile truce looks increasingly shaky as Arakan Army joins resistance offensive that is expanding elsewhere in the country.     

Khampat town on the Kale-Tamu road has reportedly fallen and rebel groups say they are moving towards the regional military headquarters in Kale Township.

Chinese ambassador Chen Hai has signed a power-purchase agreement with the regime over three solar projects in Magwe and Mandalay regions.

Regime loyalists pen articles heaping insults on the African country in retaliation for its Rohingya genocide case at the international court.

The regime’s National Defense and Security Council has only previously met since the 2021 coup to extend emergency rule by an extra six months.

Armed groups and the civilian government have vowed to intensify fighting as the regime’s grip on Sagaing Region weakens.

Anti-regime forces report they have launched a coordinated mission to encircle the junta’s stronghold.  

Police officers are being detained by the Arakan Army and junta troops as the threat of fighting looms in Rakhine State.