Guerrilla fighters from the main ethnic Karen fighting force battling Burma’s military government have withdrawn from the eastern border town of Myawaddy two weeks after forcing the army to give ...

Guerrilla fighters from the main ethnic Karen fighting force battling Myanmar’s military government have withdrawn from the eastern border town of Myawaddy two weeks after forcing the army to ...

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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.

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 ...

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 ...

the leading political body for the Karen ethnic minority that is part of the resistance against military rule in Myanmar, inspects the damaged armory in the captured army base of Infantry ...

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