Myanmar rebels

Arakan Army troops pose at a Border Guard Police Battalion base in Maungdaw Township, Rakhine State in June 2024. File Photo: AA
South Asia

Arakan Army seizes Myanmar junta's last stronghold in area bordering Bangladesh

The ethnic army launched the Maungdaw offensive in late May, taking six months to gain complete control of the township

New recruits of Bamar People's Liberation Army (BPLA) participate in a training session at a camp in a territory belonging to political organisation the Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA), in Karen State, Myanmar, March 6, 2024. A dense bamboo forest in rebel-held territory surrounds the training ground in eastern Myanmar where more than 100 young people, mostly in their twenties, are undergoing rigorous military drills. From former chefs to ex-journalists, rappers and poets, people from all walks of life have joined the resistance movement with a single goal: to overthrow the military regime that seized power in the Southeast Asian nation in 2021. Photo: REUTERS/Stringer
South Asia

In Myanmar's jungles, young volunteers train hard to fight junta

People prepare a drop bomb attached to a drone at a workshop at an undisclosed location in Myanmar in this picture released on June 5, 2024. Photo: Angry Bird Drone Rangers/Handout via REUTERS
Asia

Learning from Myanmar's rebels, junta builds new Chinese drone fleet

Soldiers salute Arakan Army chief Major General Twan Mrat Naing during a parade in Myanmar, 6 April 2018. File Photo: Arakan Army deputy chief Brig Gen Nyo Twan Awng/Twitter
World+Biz

Hundreds of Myanmar junta troops surrender near Bangladesh border

A Thai soldier takes cover near the 2nd Thailand-Myanmar Friendship Bridge during fighting on the Myanmar side between the Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA) and Myanmar's troops, which continues near the Thailand-Myanmar border, in Mae Sot, Tak Province, Thailand, April 20, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Soe Zeya Tun
South Asia

Fighting flares at Myanmar-Thai border as rebels target stranded junta troops

LT Saw Kaw, a soldier of the Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA) in charge of the Cobra column, raises Karen's national flag after burning Myanmar's national flag at a Myanmar military base at Thingyan Nyi Naung village on the outskirts of Myawaddy, the Thailand-Myanmar border town under the control of a coalition of rebel forces led by the Karen National Union, in Myanmar, April 15, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Athit Perawongmetha
South Asia

In a rebel-held Myanmar town, fragile unity pushes junta to the brink

LT Saw Kaw, a soldier of the Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA) in charge of the Cobra column, raises Karen's national flag after burning Myanmar's national flag at a Myanmar military base at Thingyan Nyi Naung village on the outskirts of Myawaddy, the Thailand-Myanmar border town under the control of a coalition of rebel forces led by the Karen National Union, in Myanmar, April 15, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Athit Perawongmetha
South Asia

Rebels raise flag at seized Myanmar base, commander confident of retaining control

Padoh Saw Taw Nee, the spokesman for the Karen National Union (KNU), speaks during an interview with Reuters, in Mae Sot, Tak Province, Thailand, April 14, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Athit Perawongmetha
South Asia

Myanmar rebels say they have repelled junta push to take back border town

A flag of one of the Myanmar rebel forces is installed next to an under-construction structure in Myanmar's Khawmawi village on the India-Myanmar border as seen from Zokhawthar village in Champhai district of India's northeastern state of Mizoram, India, November 14, 2023. Photo REUTERS
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62 Myanmar junta troops killed as rebels claim more bases in 3 days of clashes