Ethnic Ta’ang National Liberation Army said regime is violating quake truce with deadly airstrikes on civilians.
Also this week, the regime rejected grim economic forecast, launched hard currency crackdown, and torpedoed Timor-Leste.
Compliant parties that have registered for the planned elections worry about the safety of their candidates, who are bound to be unpopular, and have called for a law to safeguard...
The regime has recaptured the key southern Shan State town on the road to Naypyitaw and Karenni State.
A Karenni rebel alliance said Thursday it shot down a junta fighter that went missing Tuesday and was later reported by rebel groups to have been found crashed near Hpasawng...
Over the decades, various methods have been used or proposed by pro-democracy forces to end military rule, but none has proven sufficient on its own.
Southeast Asian lawmakers demand urgent action to free aging democracy icons – including Daw Aung San Suu Kyi – at next week’s ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Meeting.
Displaced residents urgently need food and shelter after regime forces bomb, shell and burn more than 30 villages in Sagaing Township.
The junta’s top negotiator Min Naing, notorious for threatening nonstop bombing of resistance-held areas, was welcomed in Oslo at a meeting on peacebuilding initiatives worldwide.
The Ta'ang National Liberation Army is reporting repeated airstrikes on Kyaukme town in northern Shan State as the regime aims to seize Nawnghkio Township.
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