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Myanmar air strike kills at least 19 high school students: armed group

September 13, 2025 admin

Debris is seen after an alleged army airstrike hit two private schools in Thayet Thapin village in Kyauktaw township in Rakhine state, Myanmar, Friday, Sept. 12, 2025. | Photo Credit: AP A Myanmar ethnic minority armed group said on Saturday (September 13, 2025) that a junta air strike killed at least 19 students, including children,…

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Myanmar junta air strike kills 40: ethnic armed group, rescue worker

January 9, 2025 admin

This handout photo taken and released on January 9, 2025 by the Arakan Army (AA) ethnic minority armed group shows a man standing near a burning house at the site of a suspected air strike carried out by Myanmar’s military at Kyauk Ni Maw village in Ramree island in western Rakhine State. | Photo Credit:…

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The different armed groups of Myanmar

July 30, 2024 admin

The Myanmar military’s coup d’état in 2021 has brought about a seismic shift in the country’s politics. The military leadership’s assumption that resistance to the coup would quickly dissipate proved to be a gross miscalculation. The removal of Aung San Suu Kyi and other civilian leaders from the political scene prompted sustained violent resistance. Unable…

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Junta under pressure as fierce fighting breaks out in northeastern Myanmar

July 6, 2024 admin

New fighting has broken out in northeastern Myanmar, bringing an end to a Chinese-brokered ceasefire and putting pressure on the military regime as it faces attacks from resistance forces on multiple fronts in the country’s civil war. The Ta’ang National Liberation Army, one of three powerful militias that launched a surprise joint offensive last October,…

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UN expert warns of looming ‘genocidal violence’ in Myanmar

July 4, 2024 admin

This photo taken on May 21, 2024 shows people rebuilding temporary homes near a destroyed building following fighting between Myanmar’s military and the Arakan Army (AA) ethnic minority armed group in a village in Minbya Township in Rakhine State. | Photo Credit: AFP Myanmar’s Rakhine State is facing a terrifying situation similar to the run-up…

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Myanmar ethnic armed groups seize beach resort town; launch attacks on junta

June 26, 2024 admin

In this photo released by the Myanmar Army, a fire burns in the predominantly ethnic Rakhine village of Let Kar in Rakhine State’s Mrauk-U township, western Myanmar. | Photo Credit: AP “Myanmar ethnic armed groups seized a popular beach resort town in the west of the country and launched dawn attacks on junta positions in…

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Myanmar junta orders evacuations around embattled State capital

June 14, 2024 admin

This photo shows a destroyed house and burned trees following fighting between Myanmar’s military and the Arakan Army (AA) ethnic minority armed group in the Rakhine State. | Photo Credit: AFP Myanmar’s junta has ordered thousands of people living outside a State capital threatened by ethnic rebels to leave their homes and head into the…

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Myanmar Rebels Claim Control Of Town, Deny Targeting Rohingya

May 19, 2024 admin

The junta has lost control of around half its 5,280 military positions, according to an estimate. (File) A powerful armed ethnic group in Myanmar said on Sunday it had won control over a town in the western state of Rakhine after weeks of fighting, denying accusations it had targeted members of the Muslim-minority Rohingya during…

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Myanmar ethnic armed group claims control of western town

May 18, 2024 admin

Members of Myanmar Border Guard Police, in civilian clothing, sit under the shade of trees after abandoning their posts following an alleged attack by members of the Arakan Army as Bangladesh border guards stand guard in Ghumdhum, Bandarban, Bangladesh, on Monday, Feb. 5, 2024. | Photo Credit: AP A Myanmar ethnic minority armed group on…

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