No matter what the truth of the government side’s command structure, the conflict has now risen as the biggest obstacle to reform, permanent peace, and the creation of some new federal structure, a ...

Image A rare earth mining site in Myanmar's Kachin State's Chipwi Township allegedly operated by the Ginlum company is shown in May 2023. Image courtesy of Frontier Myanmar. From the story "Back in ...

Hovering over these ambitions is an artefact of an earlier great power struggle, the Stilwell Road. Built during World War II ...

Seng Moon grabbed her day-old baby and fled into the thick jungle, joining thousands of villagers escaping fighting between ethnic Kachin rebels and Myanmars army, now reinforced by a unit notorious ...

Regime bombs Laiza, Waingmaw and Momauk after accusing the KIA of a drone strike on a Myanmar National Airlines plane in Myitkyina.

BANGKOK (Reuters) - When armed rebels seized northern Myanmar's rare-earths mining belt in October, they dealt a blow to the country's embattled military junta - and wrested control of a key global ...

Myanmar, also known as Burma, has struggled to end the ethnic insurgencies that have long divided the country. Now, the last of the insurgent... For Myanmar's Kachin Rebels, Life Teeters Between War, ...

India is once again looking at a possible revival of part of the old Stillwell road built during World War II, spurred by the rare earth riches that Northern Myanmar is sitting on.

Heavy rain for nearly a week triggered flooding in northern and central Myanmar, impacting hundreds of people already reeling from ongoing civil war and a recent deadly earthquake. Extensive flooding ...

Mary Lu Ja, 33, a displaced Catholic from war-torn Myanmar’s northern Kachin state, didn’t expect she would be stuck in a makeshift camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs) for half her life. The ...