Myanmar junta

Myanmar junta

Soldiers salute Arakan Army chief Major General Twan Mrat Naing during a parade in Myanmar, 6 April 2018. File Photo: Arakan Army deputy chief Brig Gen Nyo Twan Awng/Twitter

Civilian casualties rise in Myanmar's civil war as resistance forces tighten noose around military

There is pressure on all fronts from powerful militias drawn from Myanmar's ethnic minority groups and newer resistance forces. Troops are retaliating with air, naval and artillery strikes on...

Soldiers salute Arakan Army chief Major General Twan Mrat Naing during a parade in Myanmar, 6 April 2018. File Photo: Arakan Army deputy chief Brig Gen Nyo Twan Awng/Twitter

Hundreds of Myanmar junta troops surrender near Bangladesh border

A soldier from the Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA) carries an RPG launcher at a Myanmar military base at Thingyan Nyi Naung village on the outskirts of Myawaddy, the Thailand-Myanmar border town under the control of a coalition of rebel forces led by the Karen National Union, in Myanmar, April 15, 2024. Photo: Reuters/File Photo

Myanmar rebel group says it withdraws from key town on Thai border

Photo: TBS

285 Myanmar personnel to be repatriated on 25 April: Foreign Minister

A Thai soldier takes cover near the 2nd Thailand-Myanmar Friendship Bridge during fighting on the Myanmar side between the Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA) and Myanmar's troops, which continues near the Thailand-Myanmar border, in Mae Sot, Tak Province, Thailand, April 20, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Soe Zeya Tun

Fighting flares at Myanmar-Thai border as rebels target stranded junta troops

LT Saw Kaw, a soldier of the Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA) in charge of the Cobra column, raises Karen's national flag after burning Myanmar's national flag at a Myanmar military base at Thingyan Nyi Naung village on the outskirts of Myawaddy, the Thailand-Myanmar border town under the control of a coalition of rebel forces led by the Karen National Union, in Myanmar, April 15, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Athit Perawongmetha

In a rebel-held Myanmar town, fragile unity pushes junta to the brink

At least 113 personnel from Myanmar's Border Guard Police (BGP) fled to Bangladesh and took refuge in a Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) outpost in Tumbru, Bandarban after being attacked by rebels. Photo: Collected

Bangladesh prepares to send home more Myanmar regime troops in April

Photo: UNB

Many in Myanmar consider fleeing to Thailand to escape conscription into an army they despise

Rohingyas are entering Bangladesh territory crossing Myanmar border on October 9, 2017. Photo: Salahuddin Ahmed Paulash/TBS

Myanmar Junta forcefully recruiting Rohingya from camps

Myanmar's military parade to mark the 72nd Armed Forces Day in the capital Naypyitaw, Myanmar March 27, 2017. REUTERS/Soe Zeya Tun/File Photo

3 high-ranking Myanmar officers sentenced to death for surrendering town

People stand in line to get visas at the Thai embassy in Yangon after Myanmar's military government said it would impose military service. Photo: AFP

Thousands seek to leave Myanmar after military service announcement

Myanmar's military parade to mark the 72nd Armed Forces Day in the capital Naypyitaw, Myanmar March 27, 2017. REUTERS/Soe Zeya Tun/File Photo

Myanmar junta enforces compulsory military service law

A flag of one of the Myanmar rebel forces is installed next to an under-construction structure in Myanmar's Khawmawi village on the India-Myanmar border as seen from Zokhawthar village in Champhai district of India's northeastern state of Mizoram, India, November 14, 2023. Photo REUTERS

62 Myanmar junta troops killed as rebels claim more bases in 3 days of clashes