LOIKAW, MYANMAR — Dressed in fatigues and flip-flops, the fighter perched precariously on the back of a truck, aiming his .50-calibre machine gun at a small military surveillance plane overhead.

LOIKAW, MYANMAR — Dressed in fatigues and flip-flops, the fighter perched precariously on the back of a truck, aiming his .50-calibre machine gun at a small military surveillance plane overhead.

For centuries, the small northern Myanmar city of Bhamo has owed its prosperity to its importance as a ferry terminus and ...

Rebel fighters have handed Myanmar’s army defeat after defeat, ... recently spent a week reporting at a front line of the civil war. April 20, 2024; ...

Resistance reinforcements sit on the back of a pick-up truck as they leave for the front line in Falam township, Chin State, Myanmar, in January 2025 [Valeria Mongelli/Al Jazeera] ...

Myanmar’s military government plans to call up young people ... have said that it faces challenges in recruiting soldiers and has resorted to deploying non-combat personnel to the front line. ...

Rohingya fighters and the military are battling the Arakan Army, the major rebel force in western Myanmar. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

“I fear they might take him to the military front line and harm him,” he said. Image Zarni Lynn, 15, went to buy a bottle of water in Yangon on Nov. 4 but never returned.

MOE BYE, Myanmar — A Myanmar military drone tracked a car carrying anti-junta forces as it drove through the contested ...

A year into Myanmar military’s conscription drive, thousands of young men and women have done much the same, either heading for rebel-held borderlands out of the military regime’s reach or ...

Myanmar is spiralling deeper into humanitarian catastrophe, the UN’s top human rights official warned on Friday, as ...

A Myanmar military drone tracked a car carrying anti-junta forces as it drove through the contested village of Moe Bye. Moments after it parked near a house, the operator dropped an explosive.