The biggest of these militias calls itself the Karen National Army (KNA), led by Saw Chit Thu, a warlord who broke away from the KNU in the 1990s. He controls the notorious Shwe Kokko casino ...

A member of the Karen National Union/ Karen National Liberation Army-Peace Council, another Karen organization based in Myawaddy confirmed to the AP that the new Karen National Army was playing in ...

Fighting around Myawaddy has been ongoing for days. Since April 5, the Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA) – the KNU’s military’s wing – and its allies have seized military outposts and ...

The soldiers came from the army’s Infantry Battalion 275, whose base, about 4 kilometers (3 miles) to the west of Myawaddy, was captured on April 11 by the armed wing of the Karen National Uni ...

According to the Narinjara News report, the assault by the Karen National Liberation Army, the KNU’s armed wing, “led to the fatalities of the majority of junta troops based at the camp” and ...

The Karen National Union said that its forces were pulling ... of Myanmar military air strikes against Kachin Independence Army positions.

Karen National Union (KNU) fighters had seized Manerplaw on the Thai border following days of fighting, KNU leader Saw Thamain Tun said. Myanmar junta troops "still want to take it back and they ...

Karen Ordahl Kupperman was born on April 23, 1939, in Devils Lake, North Dakota, of Swedish and Norwegian ancestry. Her mother was principally a homemaker; her father was a colonel in the United ...