KACHIN, Myanmar - The Kachin Independence Army (KIA) has taken another junta stronghold in Bhamo, a district-level town in Kachin State where the armed group has been fighting for ...

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The Kachin Independence Army says the Artillery Battalion 366 headquarters have been seized in the junta’s Kachin power hub ...

In Indaw, which borders Kachin State on the Mandalay-Myitkyina Road, resistance forces seized the police station and General Administration Department office after launching their offensive on Aug. 16 ...

Southeast Asian foreign ministers told Myanmar’s junta to prioritise a ceasefire in its civil war over fresh elections during a meeting in Malaysia on Sunday. The Myanmar military seized power in ...

Two Cambodian deminers were killed while trying to remove a decades-old anti-tank mine from a rice field that was once a battlefield between government forces and Khmer Rouge soldiers, officials said.

Bishop John Mung La Sam was ordained on Jan. 12 for Myitkyina diocese in the state capital of war-ravaged Kachin state in northern Myanmar, Fides new agency reported. Cardinal Charles Maung Bo, ...

Myitkyina (Agenzia Fides) - "The motto of the new Bishop of Myitkyina 'Quaerite autem primum regnum et iustitiam eius' (Seek first the Kingdom of God and His justice) is a clear call to all of us to ...

The restrictions apply to parts of Sagaing and Mandalay regions, most of Kachin State except the capital Myitkyina, and all of northern Shan State apart from the three regime-controlled towns of Muse, ...

The Kachin National Forum (KNF), issued statements for Myanmar’s 77th Independence Day, on 4 January 2025 and for the 77th Kachin State Day on 9 January. In its statements the ...