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According to the rebels, the town was surrounded and being patrolled by the joint rebel coalition by that afternoon. [ 7 ] Heavy artillery shelling and air strikes from the junta targeted the military garrison base in Ward 2 while the rebel forces engaged in a battle near the General Administration Department office in Ward 7, 0.7 miles (1.1 km ...
The military first seized power in Myanmar in a 1962 coup. As many as 90 towns and cities are held by the resistance forces, the government-in-exile said, with the military fully controlling just ...
In September 2024, the Arakan Army launched an offensive to capture the city of Ann, the location of the headquarters of the Myanmar military's Western Command. The battle was a culmination of a year-long offensive by the Arakan Army to capture the entirety of Rakhine State. The battle ultimately resulted in the total defeat of junta forces on ...
The military, which seized power from an elected government in a 2021 coup, is battling a coordinated offensive launched last month by an alliance of three ethnic minority insurgent groups, as ...
The Myanmar military is facing its biggest challenge from an alliance of armed ethnic groups since its February 2021 coup, when it wrested power from the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi.
The State Administration Council (SAC), the military junta which seized power in Myanmar in 2021, faced escalating attacks by ethnic Karens, supported by other anti-coup factions. The Karen National Union (KNU), in particular, had been engaged in a struggle for self-rule since Myanmar's independence in 1948. [citation needed] [6]
Fighting between the army and Karen armed groups intensified after the military seized power in 2021. Several ethnic rebel groups including the Karen have loose alliances with pro-democracy ...
The Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA) said it had taken the strategic city of Lashio in northern Shan State, about 120 km (75 miles) from the Chinese border, after 23 days of ...