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.

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; ...

“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 ...

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

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 ...

Since Myanmar’s descent into civil war in 2021, photojournalist Siegfried Modola has traversed the junta-controlled country – including a four-day journey with a militia unit through water ...

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.

The junta’s recruitment of child soldiers has surged, Human Rights Watch said in a report on June 20, a significant number enlisted since it introduced mandatory military service. So far the military ...

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

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] ...