By Hlaing / MPA Yangon — Resistance forces in central Myanmar are facing their most significant challenge in months, admitting to the loss of several strategic towns and supply routes following a high-tech counter-offensive by the military junta. After a year of rapid gains, anti-coup forces have been forced to withdraw from key positions in Mandalay, Sagaing, and Magway regions throughout late 2025 and...

By Ra Wai / MPA PAKOKKU — Residents of a village in central Myanmar remain stranded in nearby forests, unable to return to their homes days after a military raid left their community in ruins. Survivors from Kan Yat Gyi village, located in Pakokku Township, say the embers from the fires are still too hot to allow for a safe return or cleanup operation....

By Hsu Yee / MPA Bago, Myanmar — The Myanmar military has launched a counter-offensive to recapture the town of Taw Kywe Inn (also known as Aung Myin), deploying ground reinforcements and air support after resistance forces seized control of the strategic location early Friday (January 9). The town, situated on the vital old Yangon-Mandalay highway in Kyauktaga township, fell to joint resistance forces...

By Ra Wai / MPA Bago, Myanmar — Resistance forces in Myanmar’s Bago Region launched a massive, coordinated offensive against 14 military targets along the strategic old Yangon-Mandalay highway on Friday (January 9), claiming to have killed at least 50 junta soldiers and temporarily seizing control of a town. The operation, described by the Bago Region Military Command as the "Sittaung River Valley Aung...

By Mon Lay / MPA Yangon — Myanmar’s military leader, Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, has made a rare visit to the strategic township of Padaung in the western Bago Region, a move analysts say highlights the regime’s growing desperation to protect its crucial domestic arms production facilities from advancing ethnic armed groups. According to a statement from the military council, the General visited...