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At least 2,000 people have been displaced within Myanmar by the latest round of fighting between the rebels and the military, according to civil society group Karen Peace Support Network.
The Irrawaddy (Burmese: ဧရာဝတီ; MLCTS: ei: ra wa. ti) is a news website by the Irrawaddy Publishing Group (IPG), founded in 1990 [1] by Burmese exiles living in Thailand.
While the Irrawaddy reports Pekhon has been taken, unlike concurrent reports by Bni Online and KT News, which report fighting in Pekhon. [83] [84] [85] The Frontier Myanmar also reported Pekhon was taken, but already in october. [72] While the Irrawaddy reports major fighting in Mobye for control of the Pekon-Moebye-Loikaw road.
An airstrike by Myanmar’s army on a village under the control of an armed ethnic minority group killed about 40 people and injured at least 20 others, officials of the group and a local charity ...
Throughout the siege, the Myanmar air force kept up a constant bombardment of Maungdaw, driving the last civilians out of the town. Its planes dropped supplies to the besieged soldiers at night ...
The Battle of Kawkareik or siege of Kawkareik occurred in late October 2022 when the Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA) escalated fighting in southeastern Myanmar and besieged the district-level capital town of Kawkareik. At the time, it appeared to be a significant first seizure of a major town by anti-junta forces since the renewed civil ...
If confirmed, the capture of Lashio would be the biggest victory for Myanmar’s anti-junta resistance since the 2021 coup and mark a turning point in the civil war.
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.