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Additionally, both countries were born into conflict, with Burma facing ethnic and communist insurgencies soon after independence, followed by the incursion of Chinese nationalist Kuomintang troops into Shan State while Israel faced the 1948 Arab-Israeli War when a military coalition of Arab states invaded the recently declared state of Israel.
The Kachin Independence Army's (KIA) offensive in Kachin State, known unofficially as Operation 0307 (after the date it began), is an ongoing military operation against the Tatmadaw military junta of Myanmar which began on 7 March 2024.
Myanmar's escalating conflict and worst violence since the military takeover in 2021 are having a devastating impact on human rights, fundamental freedoms and basic needs of millions of people ...
Pro-military commentators in Myanmar have been venting their frustration on social media. "Min Aung Hlaing, you have not asked any of your children to serve in the military," wrote one.
One of the numerous camps scattered all over the region where between 150,000 and 250,000 internally displaced people have taken shelter after Myanmar military airstrikes and artillery forced them ...
Israel has been known to supply small arms, drones, [110] patrol boats and spyware to the Myanmar military. [111] On 27 September 2017, an Israeli court issued an order banning Israeli arms industries from exporting weapons to Myanmar. [112] Despite the ban order, Myanmar military received training and weapons from Israeli defence companies. [113]
Shan state in northern Myanmar in particular is reported to have a growing number of methamphetamine labs. The UN report said the amount of methamphetamines seized across East and Southeast Asia ...
About two weeks into a major offensive against Myanmar's military-run government by an alliance of three well-armed militias of ethnic minorities, an army captain, fighting in a jungle area near ...