"Tatmadaw soldiers are often young people without education or culture, recruited and manipulated by their commanders. They commit cruel acts and do not understand the gravity of their actions," he ...

The army has also lost territory in the western state of Rakhine. Like other minorities in Myanmar, the Kachin people have struggled for decades for greater autonomy from Myanmar’s central ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

While the Kachin Independence Army's goal is unclear, a major offensive could have significant impact on the trajectory of the country's conflict. Few are likely to believe the military's claims ...

YANGON: In Kachin State, the 2024 rainy season brought record-breaking floods along the Ayeyarwady River, leaving behind thick layers of silt but failing to produce crops, according to local farmers.

Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing joined regional talks in Bangkok on Friday, a day after his army launched multiple airstrikes, ...

Nearly 40 young people were killed when Myanmar’s military junta launched an airstrike on a Kachin Independence Army (KIA) training camp in Mohnyin District, Kachin State, even as the country ...

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 ...