Tag: Military

24 April 2026 By Ko Myo YANGON, Myanmar — At least 49 civilians have been killed and over 100 others wounded in a single week of intensified attacks by the Myanmar military, according to a report released on Friday by the independent monitoring group Nyan Lin Thit Research. The research ...

24 April 2026 By Hsu Yee WASHINGTON D.C. / BANGKOK — In a sophisticated cross-border operation involving the FBI and Myanmar’s ethnic resistance forces, the US Department of Justice has indicted two Chinese nationals accused of managing billion-dollar cyber-scam operations from Myanmar’s war-torn borderlands. The arrests of Huang Xingshan (alias ...

24 April 2026 By Mon Lay YANGON, Myanmar — Independent media outlets in Myanmar have vowed to continue their operations in defiance of a new military junta decree revoking their licenses, calling the move a "blatant attempt to shroud the truth." The junta’s Ministry of Information announced on Wednesday that ...

24 April 2026 By Ra Wa MAWLAMYINE, Myanmar — Residents of Mawlamyine, the capital of Mon State, are reporting a sharp increase in power outages just 48 hours after the military junta’s electricity ministry publicly promised to extend power distribution across the country. On April 22, the military-appointed Minister for ...

23 April 2026 By Hsu Yee WETLET, Myanmar — At least 11 people, including a teacher and several children, have been injured after the Myanmar military launched a "kamikaze" drone attack on a school in the central Sagaing Region. The attack occurred shortly after 11:00 AM on Thursday in Mu ...

23 April 2026 By Hsu Yee LETPADAN, Myanmar — At least four young men have been killed after the Myanmar military launched a heavy aerial bombardment on a small fishing community in western Bago Region, an area where resistance groups claim there was no active fighting. The attack occurred on ...

23 April 2026 By Poesangle NAUNG CHO, Myanmar — For the sugarcane farmers of Naung Cho, the end of active combat has brought little peace. Instead, the fields that once promised a bountiful harvest have become a deadly landscape of hidden landmines and unexploded ordnance (UXO), claiming dozens of lives ...

22 April 2026 By Kan Htun KYAUKTAW, Myanmar — The Myanmar military has launched a massive aerial bombardment on Kyauktaw Township in Rakhine State, using both fighter jets and Y-12 transport planes to strike areas near the Aka Taung mountain range and the Pi Chaung region. Local residents reported that ...

22 April 2026 By Nway HPAKANT, Myanmar — In a move widely condemned as a direct assault on healthcare services, Myanmar military forces and allied militias have raided a private hospital in the jade-mining hub of Hpakant, beating and detaining more than 20 people, including doctors, nurses, and patients. The ...

22 April 2026 By Hsu Yee PAKOKKU, Myanmar — Former members of the People's Defence Force (PDF) who surrendered to the Myanmar military are being imprisoned and subjected to severe mistreatment, despite junta promises of amnesty and safe integration, according to local resistance sources and a former inmate. Reports from ...