News About Myanmar

The National Unity Government (NUG) · In Pauk Township of Magway Region, the junta army from Naypyidaw has been invading the area with oil fields. According to Local Humanitarian Team, about 7,000 residents of 7 local villages have been displaced. · According to the Steering Council for the Emergence of a Federal Democratic Union, their political policies are equal to some of the requests by the Political Coordination Body, a local group formed with experienced politicians in

Fergus Harlow History rarely collapses in an instant; more often, it is quietly rewritten until reality itself feels negotiable. In the years leading up to Myanmar’s 2021 coup, a story took shape in the international imagination – one that cast Aung San Suu Kyi not as a constrained civilian leader navigating a military-dominated state, but as a symbol of moral failure. The conditions that made this possible – and made this month’s elevation of military coup leader Min Aung Hl

Narinjara News, 13 April 2026 The Arakan Army (AA) information service recently released a report featuring photographs and interviews of at least 15 soldiers, who deserted the Myanmar military camps to surrender to AA fighters. The defectors cited forced recruitment and brutal practices by the junta as their primary reason for fleeing. They surrendered in the first week of April. They were previously stationed at several junta outposts, including point (500) hill along with

The Arakan Army (AA) will achieve “final victory” in Rakhine State by the end of 2027, its commander-in-chief, Maj-Gen Twan Mrat Naing, said on Friday at a ceremony marking the 17th anniversary of the group’s founding. The AA has captured 14 townships in Rakhine State, as well as Paletwa Township in southern Chin State, since late 2023. Only three townships in Rakhine State—the capital Sittwe, Kyaukphyu, and Manaung—remain under regime control. “We will continue to carry out

Min Aung Hlaing, inaugurated as president in the capital Naypyidaw on April 10 after receiving the most votes by pro-military lawmakers in the legislature, formed an 11-member Union Consultative Council (UCC) under the leadership of regime deputy and former deputy Commander-in-Chief Soe Win on Friday. “The chairmanship position [of the UCC] is a consolation prize for Soe Win,” a source close to the regime in Naypyidaw told DVB on the condition of anonymity, adding that the UC

The People’s Defence Force (PDF) operating in Mon State’s Bilin Township and Bago Region’s Shwegyin Township stated on Sunday that 13 regime troops were killed during a battle to seize two regime outposts April 7-12. It added that the Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA) and the All Burma Students’ Democratic Front (ABSDF) seized control over the two outposts from regime forces. Shwegyin, located 64 miles (102 km) north of the region’s capital Bago, is located in Karen Natio