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The Kachin Independence Army has been fighting in Kachin State’s second city for five months and is now facing regime counterattacks.

While going out of its way to help the junta get its nerve center back up and running, China also continues to lean on the ethnic resistance to give back territory to the regime.

Malaysia should use the remaining months of its ASEAN chairmanship to push for some real solutions to the Myanmar crisis, which cannot involve the junta, says Paul Greening.

India says it destroyed nine terrorist camps in retaliation for militant attack in Kashmir, as Pakistani shelling reportedly kills 12 near the border.

Beijing’s Shan State intervention, coupled with silence over regime attacks on civilians during earthquake ceasefire, have ...

The US Treasury says it has sanctioned the Karen National Army over claims that the armed group profited from cyber scams and ...

The Kachin Independence Army says the regime is determined to defend its headquarters in strategically important Bhamo with repeated airstrikes and airdrops of supplies.

The regime claims its ceasefire is helping recovery from the March 28 earthquake while boosting Myanmar’s peace and stability.

A TNLA official said China has gone beyond making occasional threats against the armed group and is now applying multiple ...

The junta is using the earthquake response to stage legitimacy; the international community must stop playing along.

A political party in Bangladesh says a Rohingya-majority area of Rakhine State should become an independent state for ...