Myanmar News » Kachin News Myanmar » Kachin: Myanmar army says a transport helicopter has crashed in a combat zone due to malfunction
BANGKOK — A helicopter belonging to Myanmar’s military crashed in a combat zone in the country’s north while returning from a mission to deliver supplies to army outposts, a state-run newspaper ...
News Myanmar » Kachin: Examining the Role of Women in Kachin Resistance
A new study fills a glaring gap in scholarship by letting women tell their own stories of resistance to decades of military rule in Myanmar.
News Myanmar » Kachin: Who is fighting in Myanmar’s multi-front civil war?
Alliances are fluid in Myanmar's civil war, involving a military regime, ethnic armed groups and pro-democracy forces.
News Myanmar » Kachin: Myanmar rebel group says shoots down military helicopter
The Kachin Independence Army (KIA), one of Myanmar's most powerful rebel groups, said on Monday it had shot down a helicopter after returning fire following air strikes by the military, an official at ...
News Myanmar » Kachin: Q+A-What is behind clashes in Myanmar's Kachin hills?
June 16 (Reuters) - Myanmar troops have clashed with ethnic Kachin rebels near Chinese-built dams this week, threatening Chinese energy interests in the country. Here are some questions and answers ...
News Myanmar » Kachin: For Myanmar's Kachin Rebels, Life Teeters Between War, Peace
Myanmar, also known as Burma, has struggled to end the ethnic insurgencies that have long divided the country. Now, the last of the insurgent... For Myanmar's Kachin Rebels, Life Teeters Between War, ...
News Myanmar » Kachin: Kachin leaders in Myanmar hope for peace dividend
Catholic leaders of the Kachin ethnic minority in Myanmar have high hopes that the recent visit to Myanmar by Pope Francis will aid peace efforts despite new military offensives against rebels. The ...
News Myanmar » Kachin: Kachin civilians flee Myanmar's 'forgotten war'
Seng Moon grabbed her day-old baby and fled into the thick jungle, joining thousands of villagers escaping fighting between ethnic Kachin rebels and Myanmars army, now reinforced by a unit notorious ...
News Myanmar » Kachin: Myanmar army overruns Kachin rebel camps as fighting escalates
YANGON — Myanmar’s military has used heavy weapons to overrun remote rebel camps in northern Kachin state, the army said Friday, as a seasonal offensive ramps up the long-running conflict. A separate ...
News Myanmar » Kachin: Myanmar’s displaced Kachin Christians remain in limbo
Mary Lu Ja, 33, a displaced Catholic from war-torn Myanmar’s northern Kachin state, didn’t expect she would be stuck in a makeshift camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs) for half her life. The ...