At least fifteen people were killed in Bangladesh Monday after mortar and artillery shells fired from Myanmar during clashes there landed across the border, as terrified residents reported heavy fighting and medics treated several with […]
Mandatory military service is not an uncommon practice around the world. In Myanmar, such a law was first introduced in 1959, but had never been enforced. After a military-led coup in 2021, army chief Min […]
Thousands seek to leave Myanmar after military service announcementThousands seek to leave Myanmar after military service announcement. More than 1,000 people lined up at the Thai embassy in Yangon on Friday (Feb 16) as young […]
Myanmar’s junta has declared mandatory military service for all young men and women, state media said on Saturday, as it struggles to contain armed rebel forces fighting for greater autonomy in various parts of the […]
Myanmar’s Junta reports that it sentenced six army generals to death for their surrender this month of a regional military command headquarters on the border with China to an alliance of ethnic armed groups. The […]
Arakan Army poised for all-out Rakhine war but replication of recent insurgent successes in Shan state is far from guaranteed. As the tempo of conflict in Myanmar’s northeast slows after months of dramatic insurgent advances, […]
Six high-ranking Myanmar junta officers who handed over a strategic town to ethnic minority fighters and surrendered with hundreds of troops have been taken into custody, a military spokesman and others told AFP on Jan […]
A Myanmar military K-8 ground-attack fighter jet crashed Saturday in a combat zone in the eastern state of Kayah, a military officer and a member of an anti-military resistance organization said. The resistance group said […]
Ethnic insurgents in western Myanmar say they have captured an important town on one of the main routes to India from military forces. The Arakan Army (AA) – one of three armed groups that launched […]
Rebels take key Myanmar city after government troops lay down weaponsAround 1,000 government soldiers put down their weapons and were allowed to leave, according to local people and independent media accounts in what is the […]
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