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FALAM, Myanmar — A Myanmar military airstrike has killed three young men, including a 14-year-old boy, in a rural village in Chin State, as the ruling junta intensifies its aerial campaign against resistance strongholds. The attack occurred on the afternoon of March 14, 2026, when a Yak-130 jet fighter—reportedly departing ...

Fleeing Junta Soldiers Killed as Resistance Forces Consolidate Gains in Southern Myanmar At least seven soldiers from the Myanmar military were killed on Thursday after resistance forces intercepted troops fleeing from a strategic base that fell earlier this week in Tanintharyi Region. The Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA) and its ...

Myanmar Junta Chief Vows to Escalate Air Campaign Using New Russian and Chinese Jets The leader of Myanmar’s military junta, Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, has declared air power as the "key factor" in winning the country's ongoing civil war, signaling a major escalation in an aerial campaign that has ...

The Chief Minister of the Indian state of Mizoram, Lalduhoma, has confirmed that the Kaladan Multi-Modal Transit Transport Project (KMMTTP), a critical joint infrastructure venture between India and Myanmar, is now under the full control of the Arakan Army (AA). Addressing the state assembly on 11 March 2026, the Chief ...

Four civilians, including two six-year-old children, have been killed after a Myanmar military unit used a low-flying "paramotor" (motorised glider) to drop bombs on a residential home in Shwegyin Township, Bago Region. The attack occurred shortly before 13:00 local time on 11 March 2026, targeting Inn Ba Lar village (also ...

The Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA) and its allied resistance forces have successfully captured a major military base in southern Myanmar that had been occupied by the national army for over 30 years. The Win Wa base, located in the Mergui-Tavoy District of Tanintharyi Region, fell to resistance forces on ...

The Myanmar military junta has enacted a sweeping new Anti-Money Laundering Law, designed to grant the regime unprecedented control over domestic financial flows and to systematically dismantle the financial networks of its political opponents. The 2026 Anti-Money Laundering Law, issued on 11 March, introduces significantly broader definitions and harsher penalties ...

Justice For Myanmar (JFM) has called on the Canadian government to urgently investigate and prosecute four Canadian nationals suspected of maintaining illegal business ties with Myanmar’s state-owned pearl enterprise, a sanctioned entity accused of funding military atrocities. The advocacy group revealed that in April 2024, a team of prominent Canadian ...

By Bala / MPA DEMOSO, Myanmar – In the eastern reaches of Demoso Township, Karenni State, the vibrant sounds of traditional drums and gongs echoed through the village of Phe Lyar yesterday as locals gathered for the annual Kayah "Youth" Tagundaing (Sacred Pole) festival. While the region has been marked ...

More than 100 prisoners of war (POWs), including high-ranking military officers, have been killed after the Myanmar military launched a sustained three-hour aerial bombardment on a detention camp run by the Arakan Army (AA). The incident occurred in Ann Township, Rakhine State, on 8 March. According to a statement released ...