News About Myanmar

Photo caption: Civilian cargo vehicles seen along the Mandalay-Myitkyina Road. A Myanmar military convoy traveling from Mandalay to Myitkyina, the capital of Kachin State, has ordered civilian vehicles and forced them to travel alongside the regime's transport columns, according to residents and resistance forces. The convoy, moving toward Kachin State via the Tigyaing–Katha Road section in upper Sagaing Region, comprises at least 80 vehicles, including heavy 12-wheel cargo t

The KBC church in Bhamo destroyed by the junta’s arson attack. Myanmar military troops have torched a Christian church belonging to the Kachin Baptist Convention (KBC) and surrounding homes in downtown Bhamo, Kachin State, as fighting against the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) escalates. According to local sources, regime troops from Light Infantry Divisions (LIDs) 33 and 88, stationed in Bhamo Township's 3-Mile village, deliberately set fire to the KBC church and residential

14 October 2026 Myanmar military forces carried out airstrikes in Sagaing Region and along the Rakhine–Magway border on 12 October, killing at least five civilians, as Myanmar’s UN envoy, Ambassador Kyaw Moe Tun, warned that nearly five million children in Myanmar urgently need humanitarian assistance. Meanwhile, more than 10,000 residents of Myanaung Township in Ayeyarwady Region were evacuated over safety concerns at a reservoir embankment, and Thai authorities rescued traf

Myanmar’s military regime has intensified its threats against independent media critical of its rule, vowing to eliminate outlets and journalists regardless of their location. An editorial in the junta’s mouthpiece Kyemon on Monday urged the “elimination of any destructive element inside or outside the country,” echoing the Home Affairs Ministry’s threats last week. On October 6, Deputy Home Affairs Minister Major‑General Min Thu told parliament the regime has opened cases ag

A Kachin Baptist Convention church burns after the regime launched an arson attack in Three-Mile Village near Bhamo, Kachin State, on October 12, 2026. / CJ via KNG Myanmar military forces burned a Christian church near Bhamo on Monday evening as the regime continues its campaign to recapture the Kachin State town, according to Colonel Naw Bu, a spokesperson for the Kachin Independence Army (KIA). “They [the regime] burned a Christian church in Three Mile Village on the way t

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