where the Kachin ethnic minority lives. A people (1.7 million inhabitants) who have been demanding autonomy for over 60 years and have organized an army, the "Kachin Independence Army". In this area, ...

The joint resistance force seized Maw Luu, 34 km north of Indaw, in December last year.

The Kachin Baptist Church (KBC) and Kachin civil society organisations (CSOs) and religious charities have raised 163 million ...

Nearly 40 young people were killed when Myanmar’s military junta launched an airstrike on a Kachin Independence Army (KIA) ...

This time, not against the Rohingyas, but against the Kachin people in the north. The BBC's Myanmar correspondent Nick Beake met people fleeing their homes. The constitutional court voted ...

Regime bombarding Kachin State targets after resistance groups call ceasefire to facilitate delivery of aid to earthquake victims.

When armed rebels seized northern Myanmar's rare-earths mining belt in October, they dealt a blow to the country's embattled ...

Myanmar’s military, which toppled the civilian government in February 2021, is fighting armed groups and newly emerged People Defense Forces on multiple fronts in Kachin, western Rakhine, and eastern ...

The KIA is seeking leverage against neighbouring China, which supports the junta and has invested heavily in rare earths mining in Myanmar's Kachin state, according to two people familiar with the ...