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This video grab released by the Arakan Army shows burning buildings in the headquarters of the army’s western command in Ann township, Rakhine state, Myanmar, Dec. 17, 2024. | Photo Credit: AP Southeast Asian Foreign Ministers gathered Sunday (January 19, 2025) for their first meeting this year under the regional bloc’s new chair, Malaysia, seeking…
Soldiers from the Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA) patrol on a vehicle. File. | Photo Credit: Reuters A Myanmar ethnic rebel group said on Tuesday (December 17, 2024) it had recaptured its headquarters from the Myanmar military, almost 30 years after it was forced out. Karen National Union (KNU) fighters had seized Manerplaw on the…
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This photo taken on September 10, 2024 shows recovering drug addicts from Myanmar attending classes during a rehabilitation program run by the non-governmental organisation DARE Network (Drug and Alcohol Recovery and Education) at an undisclosed location in Mae Sot along the Thai-Myanmar border. | Photo Credit: AFP In a drug treatment centre in a wooden…
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Gutted buildings, vacant windows and blocks bombed to rubble show the price paid by the western Myanmar town of Pauktaw for victory against the junta in the country’s civil war. Fighters from the Arakan Army (AA) ethnic minority armed group took control of the fishing port of 20,000 people in January, as the conflict sparked…
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People flee from a village after renewed fighting between Myanmar’s military and the Arakan Army (AA), an ethnic minority armed group, in Pauktaw Township in western Rakhine State in November 2023. File. | Photo Credit: AFP United Nations chief Antonio Guterres has said he is “alarmed” by reports of ongoing Myanmar military air strikes on…
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