A Burmese army base was recaptured by resistance forces, sparking an exodus of refugees toward the Thai border. Footage shows ...

U.S. Treasury officials announced sanctions against a warlord linked to sophisticated 'scam compounds.' Over the weekend, we covered the rise of "wrong person" scam texts — seemingly innocent messages ...

Hundreds of soldiers who fled to Thailand last week to escape resistance offensives have now returned and are massing in the Karen border trade hub.

Guerrilla fighters from the main ethnic Karen fighting force battling Burma’s military government have withdrawn from the eastern border town of Myawaddy two weeks after forcing the army to give ...

A fifth base also fell less than a week earlier, signalling the weakness of the regime’s position along the border in eastern ...

The powerful KNU and allies are advancing with coordinated attacks aimed at clearing regime troops from three states and one region on Myanmar’s southeastern border.

Although a junta counteroffensive appears to have recaptured the Light Infantry Battalion (LIB) 598 headquarters in Shwegyin Township three days after anti-junta groups seized it, the anti-junta fight ...

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The KNA controls Shwe Kokko and some areas in Myawaddy, on the border with Thailand in the state of Kayin, also known as Karen state.

Saw Chit Thu, who used to lead Myanmar’s Border Guard Force, renamed the group the Karen National Army in 2024. The move looked like an effort to create some distance from the military junta ...

The weak Burmese government—which had won its independence only five years before from the British—was too busy fighting Karen ... Army was beginning to be embarrassing to all concerned. Burma ...

An ethnic militia in southeast Myanmar that has been sanctioned ... Department announced sanctions on Monday against the Karen National Army (KNA) as well as its leader Colonel Saw Chit Thu ...