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Narinjara News, December 25, 2025 The Chin Defence Forces-Asho (CDF-Asho) reported that three soldiers from the military have surrendered with their weapons at the battlefield close to Nat Yay Kan in the Magway Region, where fighting is occurring with the AA. The three junta army soldiers are Ko Moe Kyaw, aged 33; Ko Mya Min Khaing, who is 28 years old; and Ko Thein Maw, also 33 years of age. They were part of the 88th Division and surrendered to CDF Asho from the front lines

Narinjara News, December 25, 2025 A high-ranking officer from the junta army, Wai Yan Lin, was killed during a confrontation with the Arakan Army (AA) at the battle of Nyaungyo in Bago Division on December 22. The late Major Wai Yan Lin graduated from the 53rd batch of the Defence Services Academy and held the position of G3 officer within the Yangon Region Command as well as the Regional Command based in Loikaw, according to information reported by the People's Spring, citin

With Myanmar’s health system in ruins and more people than ever traumatised by war, a grassroots network of clinicians is circumventing the stigma around mental health needs to build a new culture of care

The coordinated attacks were carried out to disrupt next Sunday’s election, according to the Naypyitaw People’s Defence Force

The regime’s Union Election Commission (UEC) announced on Thursday that the third and final phase of the 2025-26 elections will take place in a total of 63 townships across Myanmar on Jan. 25, 2026. Seventeen townships in Yangon Region will be included. Kyaukme and Hsipaw townships in northern Shan State, which were recaptured by regime forces from the Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA) Oct. 1-17, will also be included in the third phase. The TNLA had seized the two towns

Myanmar will hold the first phase of a general election on Sunday, its first vote in five years and an exercise that critics say will neither restore the country’s fragile democracy undone by a 2021 army takeover, nor end a devastating civil war triggered by the nation’s harsh military rule. The military has framed the polls as a return to multi-party democracy, likely seeking to add a facade of legitimacy to its rule, which began after the army four years ago ousted the elec