Security has been tightened in the town after six members of the junta-aligned Shanni Nationalities Army were killed in the ...

As junta forces advanced towards the town of Momauk to recapture it from the Kachin Independence Army (KIA), the KIA seized a ...

The army has also lost territory in the western state of Rakhine. Like other minorities in Myanmar, the Kachin people have struggled for decades for greater autonomy from Myanmar’s central ...

As the opposition secures control over key territories, including vital trade corridors, the junta’s authority appears ...

As the conflict between the military and Kachin Independence Army escalates and both groups face pressure for funds, fighting ...

Beijing has targeted anti-regime forces with threats and a blockade, but its intervention has likely come too late to rescue ...

“The end of the war is clear-cut. The only thing that is not clear is the means by which it’s achieved and the timing,” Chris ...

The seizure of Myanmar's rare earth mines by rebels has disrupted global supply chains, causing a surge in prices and raising ...

The Kachin resistance fighters barely heard the sound of the propellers as the Myanmar military’s two ... a fighter with the Kachin People’s Defense Force (PDF), told Al Jazeera from an ...

Rare earth mining in Myanmar is concentrated in Kachin state around the towns of Panwa and Chipwe, adjacent to southwestern China's Yunnan province. The Kachin Independence Army (KIA) took control ...