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News Myanmar » Kachin » Events: Myanmar army says a transport helicopter has crashed in a combat zone due to malfunction

News channel or source: https://www.newsday.com/news/nation/myanmar-army-conflict-crash-aircraft-kachin-u06014
Published on: Tuesday 20 May 2025

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 » Events: Myanmar Military Launches Air Strikes on Kachin, Rakhine, Shan States

News channel or source: https://thediplomat.com/2025/01/myanmar-military-launches-air-strikes-on-kachin-rakhine-shan-states/
Published on: Monday 13 January 2025

India’s Worrying Plans for Dams on Transboundary Rivers Shared with Bangladesh 2025 seems set to continue last year’s sharp increase in the number of retaliatory air and artillery attacks on ...

News Myanmar » Kachin » Events: Myanmar’s Minerals Deal

News channel or source: https://thediplomat.com/2025/09/myanmars-minerals-deal/
Published on: Monday 29 September 2025

In the scramble for access to the nation’s rare earth deposits, a non-state armed group holds the cards. Cadets of the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) preparing for military drills at the group’s ...

News Myanmar » Kachin » Events: Myanmar army overruns Kachin rebel camps as fighting escalates

News channel or source: https://saudigazette.com.sa/article/525512/World/Asia/Myanmar-army-overruns-Kachin-rebel-camps-as-fighting-escalates
Published on: Friday 05 January 2018

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 » Events: Myanmar junta torches Catholic cathedral in Kachin

News channel or source: https://www.ucanews.com/news/myanmar-junta-torches-catholic-cathedral-in-kachin/108202
Published on: Tuesday 18 March 2025

The military junta in Myanmar’s strife-torn Kachin state has allegedly burnt down a Catholic cathedral dedicated to Saint Patrick on the eve of the revered saint’s feast. Soldiers from the junta’s ...