Rebels from the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) have taken control of a rare mining area in northern Myanmar’s Kachin, defeating the junta. Controlling a resource-rich area is a significant ...

On Tuesday around 5:30 p.m., 38 young trainees of the Kachin Independence Army, an armed group battling the military in northern Myanmar, were killed in an airstrike in Kachin State, according to ...

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By capturing sites that produce roughly half of the world's heavy rare earths, the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) rebels have been able to throttle the supply of minerals used in wind turbines and ...

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The number of dead from last week's earthquake in Myanmar has risen to more than 3,000. Now, the ruling military has declared a temporary ceasefire in the country's civil war to ease relief efforts.

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Soldiers from Myanmar's Buddhist nationalist military junta reportedly set fire to St. Patrick's Cathedral in the majority-Christian Kachin state, reducing the historic church to ashes amid escalating ...