YANGON, Myanmar – Myanmar has deliberately obstructed aid deliveries to civilians in war-torn Kachin and northern Shan states, actions that may amount to war crimes, a human rights groups said ...

While the world’s attention has focused on the horror unleashed against the Rohingya population in Myanmar’s West, an old war in the country’s North has taken on a new ferocity, forcing thousands to ...

Post Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. No matter what the truth of the government side’s command structure, the ...

1 of 5 — Kachin Independence Army recruits train at a military base in Maijiayang, Kachin State, Myanmar. The KIA has around 8,000 soldiers and has been fighting the Burmese government for ...

Seng Moon grabbed her day-old baby and fled into the thick jungle, joining thousands of villagers escaping fighting between ethnic Kachin rebels and Myanmars army, now reinforced by a unit notorious ...

The Myanmar civil war in Kachin has intensified since December 2024. (File) Myanmar civil war: In a major worry for China, a deadly civil war is raging near the Chinese border in Bhamo in Myanmar as ...

When government forces attacked Mansi township in northern Kachin state on October 22 last year, soldiers fired 60mm mortars at civilian homes for an hour before storming the village. Many of the ...

David Baulk, center, a specialist from Fortify Rights, a non-profit human rights organization, talks to journalists during a launching of a report on Myanmar's Kachin State at a hotel Thursday, Aug.

Despite progress in its transition to democracy, Myanmar has struggled to end all the ethnic insurgencies that have long divided the country. Now the Kachin — the last of the insurgent groups that ...