News About Myanmar

Structures burn after a junta fighter jet bombed the busy Indian Market in Arakan Army-held Kyauktaw Town in Rakhine State on September 28, 2026. / AA Info Desk Rights groups, foreign governments and UN agencies have joined a global chorus of condemnation in response to Monday’s devastating airstrike by the military regime on a busy civilian market in the Arakan Army (AA)-controlled town of Kyauktaw in western Myanmar’s Rakhine State. The attack killed 50 civilians, including

by Nyein Chan Aye Smoke hung over what had been a busy riverside market in Kyauktaw in western Myanmar. Human remains lay among smoldering wreckage and cratered roads as families searched for their dead. The youngest child listed among the confirmed victims was four, according to a casualty list released by the Arakan Army (AA) that controls most of its home state of Rakhine. As a journalist, I have become all too accustomed to studying photographs of Myanmar’s dead. And yet

A man watches structures burn after a junta airstrike targeted a busy market in Arakan Army-controlled Kyauktaw town, Rakhine State, on September 28, 2026. / AA Info Desk The death toll from the junta’s airstrike on civilian targets in Rakhine State’s Kyauktaw town on Monday has risen to 50. A regime fighter jet dropped two bombs on a crowded market and the nearby Kissapanadi Bridge in Kyauktaw Township, Rakhine State, leaving many of the victims’ bodies burned beyond recogni

Date – 30 September 2026 Since the 1 February 2021 coup, a total of (8,472) people, including pro-democracy activists and civilians, have been killed by the junta and pro-military groups during the Spring Revolution. A total of (30,204) people have been arrested by the junta for opposing their arbitrary seizure of power. Of those arrested, (14,917) are confirmed to still be in detention, while (7,780) remain to be verified. These are the numbers reported by the Assistance Ass

Members of the United League of Arakan bury the bodies of 22 people killed during airstrikes in Kyauktaw Township, Arakan State, on Sept. 29. (Credit: One Nation News) The remains of 22 people killed during airstrikes carried out by the Myanmar Air Force in Kyauktaw Township on Sept. 28 were buried at an undisclosed location in Arakan State by the United League of Arakan (ULA), the political wing of the Arakan Army (AA), on Tuesday. Wai Hun Aung, a humanitarian aid worker in

Myanmar regime leader Min Aung Hlaing speaks during a bilateral meeting with Cambodia's Senate President Hun Sen, in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on Sept. 11, 2026. (Credit: Reuters) Myanmar’s regime leader Min Aung Hlaing is expected to visit Malaysia in October, state news agency Bernama reported on Wednesday. The announcement, delivered by Communications Minister and government spokesperson Fahmi Fadzil, comes as Putrajaya and Naypyidaw intensify bilateral discussions regarding t