Tag: Military

25 May 2026 By Ko Myo MANDALAY, Myanmar — Armed military personnel and regime administrators in the town of Kyaukpadaung, Mandalay Region, have begun widening their forced conscription net to target elderly men, using arbitrary detentions as a lucrative extortion racket to fund military operations. For nearly two years, young ...

25 May 2026 By Mon Lay NAYPYIDAW, Myanmar — Khin Yi, the leader of the military-backed Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) and nominal speaker of the regime's unrecognized Pyithu Hluttaw (House of Representatives), has asserted that the junta-created assembly must act as a primary mechanism to shield the state ...

25 May 2026 By Nway MYAING, Myanmar — Joint anti-junta resistance forces have overrun a heavily fortified pro-military militia village in Magway Region, capturing nearly 40 personnel including active-duty soldiers despite a barrage of retaliatory state airstrikes, military sources confirmed. The coordinated assault on Thayet Kan—a notorious base for the ...

24 May 2026 By Naing Yarzar Min At Yangon General Hospital—Myanmar’s oldest and most historic medical institution—a predatory network of extortionists operates with near-total impunity. For ordinary citizens seeking life-saving treatment, navigating the hospital has become a gauntlet of financial exploitation, where bribes are extracted at every turn. Despite the ...

23 May 2026 By Nway KANPETLET, Myanmar — A strategic mountaintop town in southern Chin State is being rapidly evacuated following an ultimatum by ethnic resistance forces, as intense, close-quarters combat with nearly 1,000 advancing military junta troops rages right at the city's gates. Heavy fighting has entered its third ...

23 May 2026 By Nway THAYET, Myanmar — Anti-junta resistance forces in western Myanmar have enacted an emergency highway lockdown, as a massive deployment of more than 1,000 military regime troops prepares for a sweeping offensive near the foothills of the Arakan Yoma mountain range. The Thayet District Battalion 4 ...

22 May 2026 By Mon Lay NAYPYIDAW, Myanmar — Myanmar’s newly appointed military chief, General Ye Win Oo, has accused global superpowers of using aid and diplomacy to dominate smaller nations, during an ASEAN defense summit that critics say is being heavily exploited by the junta for geopolitical propaganda. Addressing ...

22 May 2026 By Ko Myo MONYWA, Myanmar — The Interim Federal Unit Government of Sagaing has disbursed an initial military grant of 150 million Myanmar Kyat (MMK) to the Sagaing District Military Command to bolster ongoing defensive operations against the ruling military junta. The formal funding transfer took place ...

22 May 2026 By MPA YANGON, Myanmar — Footnotes and viral video footage circulating on Myanmar social media networks show the dramatic moment a crowd of angry residents in Yangon banded together to detain a man who was allegedly posing as a police officer to abduct local youth for forced ...

20 May 2026 By Kan Htun SITTWE, Myanmar — A devastating military airstrike has wiped out an entire neighborhood in the town of Sane, southern Rakhine State, destroying nearly 100 homes as the Myanmar military intensifies its multi-front campaign against the Arakha Army (AA). The aerial bombardment struck the Shwe ...