The Irrawaddy looks at two key ethnic armies that are fighting to prop up the regime—one in southern Shan and the other in ...

On Sunday, the Kachin Independence Army, another major ethnic armed group, claimed to have captured Sumprabum, a township in the northern state of Kachin.

The Kachin are one of the stronger ethnic rebel groups and are capable of manufacturing some of their own armaments. They also have a loose alliance with the armed militias of the pro-democracy ...

The main organization coordinating resistance to Myanmar's military government says its forces have arrested 10 members of a ...

A Myanmar junta air strike killed at least 15 civilians and wounded 10 others at a market in a gold-mining area in northern Kachin state, a spokesman for an ethnic rebel group that controls the ...

The U.S. has imposed a 10% tariff on all Chinese goods, including rare earths, and China has retaliated with export controls ...

a spokesperson for the Kachin Independence Army (ethnic rebel group) informed on Sunday. The attack occurred around 11:00 am on Saturday in Tanaing Township, a mining hub in the western part of ...

BANGKOK (AP) — A powerful rebel group has seized a key trading ... has been increasing assaults on a rival ethnic militia, the New Democratic Army-Kachin, which is allied with the government ...

At least 15 civilians died and 10 others were injured in an air strike by Myanmar’s military on a market in Kachin state ... between the junta and rebel groups.