Pressure from Beijing has sidelined key ethnic armed organizations, freeing the junta to drive back PDF forces in Mandalay Region.
Goodbye New START: How China’s Rise Ended Nuclear Arms Control Soldiers from the United Wa State Army (UWSA) stand at attention during a ceremony in Pangsang, in Myanmar’s Shan State, April 17, 2019.
KYAUKME, Myanmar (AP) — Kyaukme, a once-thriving town in Myanmar’s Shan State, is in shambles, targeted by both sides in the Southeast Asian country’s bitter civil war because of its strategic ...
BANGKOK — An alliance of ethnic armed groups in northeastern Myanmar has reportedly achieved one of the main goals it set when it launched an offensive last October by taking control of Laukkaing, a ...
The Three Brotherhood Alliance has launched coordinated attacks aimed at dislodging the junta and its allies from strategically important regions of Shan State bordering China. On Friday morning, an ...
The chaotic country is now a magnet for criminal syndicates, particularly from China, destabilizing law enforcement across much of Asia. The chaotic country is now a magnet for criminal syndicates, ...