Bangladesh has extended the power of commissioned army officials to enforce law and order amid the absence of police forces ...

The attacks are in response to the Kachin armed group’s offensive to take the junta-held city of Bhamo in southern Kachin ...

A KIA soldier stands guard after the Kachin armed group captured a junta infantry battalion in Kutkai Township. (Photo: Myat Pan) The Kachin Independence Army (KIA) is allegedly forcibly conscripting ...

The multi-ethnic town has seen several standoffs between Kachin and Ta’ang armed organizations who are jostling for territory in the region after driving the junta out.

and a resident who saw the KIA troops enter the town. Both spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of arrest by authorities. Multiple Kachin-based news outlets and other Myanmar media reported ...

Myanmar’s military and ethnic armies are waging a war for control over the country’s natural resources – and the enormous profits that come with them.

According to the Vatican's Fides news agency, the St. Michael's Catholic Church pastoral center in the rural area of Nan ...

The other armed groups invited include the Arakan Army, which controls significant reaches of territory in Rakhine bordering ...

a town on the Chinese border where the KIA has its headquarters. Laiza is about 325 kilometers (200 miles) northeast of Mandalay, Myanmar’s second-biggest city. The spokesperson, Col.