Image A rare earth mining site in Myanmar's Kachin State's Chipwi Township allegedly operated by the Ginlum company is shown in May 2023. Image courtesy of Frontier Myanmar. From the story "Back in ...

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 ...

Regime bombs Laiza, Waingmaw and Momauk after accusing the KIA of a drone strike on a Myanmar National Airlines plane in Myitkyina.

Air strikes by Myanmar's military killed more than 60 people, including singers and musicians, attending an anniversary celebration of the Kachin ethnic minority's main political organization, members ...

Following a drone strike that reportedly damaged a passenger plane at the airport in Kachin State’s capital, the junta air force has bombed eight places in territory held by the Kachin Independence Ar ...

Yangon, Myanmar — At least 113 people were killed Thursday in a landslide at a jade mine in northern Myanmar, the government and rescue workers said. It was the latest in a series of deadly accidents ...

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 ...

About three weeks have passed since the breakout of armed conflict between the Burmese military and the Kachin rebel group the Kachin Independence Army (KIA). Many believe the fighting directly ...

Move raises questions over how much control government has over army U.N. chief Ban Ki Moon has spoken out against the strikes The Kachin have long sought greater autonomy from the government RANGOON, ...

ZHANG SHENGQI is nervous of the police. In Yingjiang, a Chinese county bordering on Myanmar (see map), he asks the driver of his car to stop so he can check whether he is being followed. Mr Zhang, a ...

Myanmar’s Tatmadaw has been launching air strikes in the gold and mining region inside Kachin state’s Tanai township in recent months. The area is controlled by the Kachin Independence Organization ...