Around 100 regime soldiers flee outpost hailed as impregnable in 2024 propaganda film.
Critics fear the agency’s planned satellite cooperation with Moscow will boost the regime’s surveillance and military capabilities.
The Ta'ang National Liberation Army is seeking foreign and local investment in Mogoke’s ruby mines and other resource-rich towns, even as deadly regime airstrikes target civilians.
Ko Phyo Paing and Ko Naing Naing Soe were arrested on the eve of a planned peaceful protest against the junta boss’ visit to Thailand. Three months later, they are...
The civilian National Unity Government says junta airstrikes have killed at least 3,242 people since the 2001 coup.
Delighted to have been noticed at all by the U.S. president, Min Aung Hlaing thanks Trump for shutting down American-funded media that reported candidly on his regime’s abuses.
Beijing accused of pressuring ethnic army to stop fighting Myanmar junta for control of Bhamo in Kachin State.
Four children were among the dead as regime jets targeted resistance-held Mawchi in Karenni and TNLA-controlled Mogoke in Mandalay Region.
Thousands of drafted soldiers are being fed directly into key front-line conflicts in Shan, Mandalay and elsewhere, say defectors, resistance fighters and ethnic armies.
The MNDAA calls it ‘progress’, but Chinese-funded redevelopment in northern Shan is pushing locals to the margins economically, culturally and politically.
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