A recent meeting with KIA and NUG representatives in the Kachin rebels’ mountain fastness of Laiza was highly productive, says Chin Brotherhood spokesman Salai Yaw Man.
The Ta’ang National Liberation Army’s general secretary was bullish Tuesday as the armed group readies itself for more China-brokered “peace” talks with the junta this month.
Resistance groups in Sagaing Township say 16 people trapped on the Sagaing–Shwebo road were killed.
Analysts say regime is seeking to erode public reverence for Daw Aung San Suu Kyi by removing monuments to her father.
The AA denies killing 600 Rohingya in Htan Shauk Kham village, saying photos of the purported victims’ bodies in fact show junta soldiers who died in battle.
A brutal enforcer for successive military regimes, the former acting president is only the latest in a long line of criminals who escaped a reckoning with their crimes.
The ethnic army said it would block polls in areas it controls, denouncing them as a sham, and vowed to capture all townships in Rakhine State.
Malaysia’s foreign minister said the trip will likely take place on September 19 and include the foreign ministers of Indonesia, Thailand and the Philippines.
The regime's $3-milllion PR campaign in Washington aims to whitewash war crimes and court US favor, even as it clings to Chinese support and continues atrocities at home.
Ethnic armed group says declaration is unjustified; regime delegation promises to relay request after visiting Mongla and UWSA-controlled Panghsang.
The regime says that its Ministry of Health will be able to distribute vital antiretroviral medication.
Also this week, the regime turned to ultranationalists ahead of sham election, paid $3m for access to Washington, and launched random phone checks in surveillance crackdown.
Anyone interested in an objective appraisal of the ongoing Spring Revolution in Myanmar should read veteran journalist Bertil Lintner’s new book, says Rajeev Bhattacharyya.
Regime forces, reinforced by a flotilla from Mandalay, have reoccupied a battalion headquarters that fell to the Kachin Independence Army in February.
The Shan State chief minister and military officials visited UWSA and NDAA territories as the junta pushes for cooperation ahead of its planned December vote.
The Arakan Army has started a fresh offensive after a month without fighting.
Rank-and-file soldiers who retreat are often shot dead or beaten by officers lurking behind the lines, according to a young conscript who defected to the ethnic Arakan Army.
The junta has hired GOP-linked DCI Group for $3 million a year to help rebuild ties with the US and soften criticism ahead of its widely condemned election, filings show.
After orchestrating the brutal 2007 Saffron Revolution crackdown and serving as military intelligence chief, Myint Swe spent his final years as a ceremonial figurehead for the current junta.
The International Trade Union Confederation says the planned polls are “a cosmetic trick to rebrand a brutal military regime as a legitimate civilian government.”
Regime soldiers advancing on Mogoke from recently reclaimed Nawnghkio engage in intense clashes with Ta-ang National Liberation Army forces determined to hold strategic mining town.
In 2021, a stolen election shattered the democratic hopes of the younger generation—unleashing a tech-fueled revolution with a momentum 1988’s uprising couldn’t sustain.
No matter how legitimate their struggle against the junta, we need greater scrutiny of how ethnic armed groups administer the territories they conquer, says David Scott Mathieson.
The regime is mobilizing hundreds of troops to recapture a strategic police station in Pale Township that was seized by allied resistance forces in June.
Deputy chief of Southeastern Command among dozens detained after hundreds of trucks intercepted on Karen border route, severely disrupting trade.
A UK-based group traced “anti-jamming” modules from a European manufacturer to Chinese resellers and finally to the junta’s drone fleet.
Moe Aung, who also once served as Navy chief, has disappeared from the new regime lineup amid a massive data leak and reshuffle.
The umbrella group Kachin Political Interim Coordination Team says it remains committed to overthrowing the junta despite Chinese pressure to lay down arms.
Historian Sam Dalrymple traces the five partitions of Britain’s Indian Empire, from Burma to the Arabian Peninsula, and the legacies of conflict they left behind.
A depleted junta flotilla carrying reinforcements from Mandalay has docked in the strategic town of Bhamo amid ongoing clashes with the Kachin resistance.
Rebranded regime resuspends key privacy laws despite lifting emergency rule.
Eleven of convoy’s original 17 supply vessels survive repeated ambushes in setback for Kachin resistance forces fighting to seize strategic town.
KPPA reports worsening conditions, no family access or medicine, and a recent inmate death as Myanmar’s military tightens restrictions at the prison.
USDP chair Khin Yi, a longtime regime enforcer, met with prominent nationalists in Yangon to gain their support for Min Aung Hlaing’s bid to become “elected president.”
Regime mouthpiece New Light of Myanmar accuses the staunchly anti-junta government in Dili of “cavorting with terrorists” over friendly contacts with the parallel National Unity Government.
