News About Myanmar

A Myanmar junta convoy of over 180 vehicles carrying roughly 1,000 troops has reached the border between Chin State and Magway Region as the regime ramps up its offensive against Mindat and Kanpetlet in southern Chin State. The column departed Minbu in Magway Region on September 19, traveling through Pwintbyu and Salin before arriving on September 20 at Directorate of Defence Industry 25 (DDI 25), a weapons and ammunition manufacturing facility in Laungshey, Saw Township. Loc

Locals protesting against the military coup in the Bagan ancient cultural zone on February 11, 2021. (AFP) Drivers are increasingly refusing to operate vehicles along the Bagan-Nyaung-U highway in Mandalay Region as the Myanmar military junta steps up forced abductions and conscription of passengers from express buses, according to local residents. While arbitrary arrests were already reported along this route through July, local sources report a sharp escalation in September

School buildings and civilian homes were damaged after the Myanmar military junta launched an airstrike on Kyathaungseik Village in Bilin Township, Mon State, according to local sources. At around 11 p.m. on September 19, a junta jet fighter dropped four 500-pound bombs targeting the eastern and western sections of the village. The airstrike damaged three school buildings, a staff quarter, and two homes in the western part of the village, as well as two additional school buil

An elderly displaced woman in Kyaukphyu Township pictured in early November 2024. Elderly residents at the Thandar Myay Home for the Aged in Kyaukphyu, Arakan State—a town under Myanmar military junta control—are in urgent need of humanitarian assistance due to severe shortages of food and essential medicines, according to local sources. The facility shelters vulnerable seniors, including those who are visually impaired, paralyzed, or chronically ill. A steep drop in private

23 September 2026 Fighting between the Myanmar military and the Arakan Army (AA) continued intermittently from 19 to 21 September along the Rakhine Yoma boundary between western Thabaung Township, Ayeyarwady Region, and neighbouring Yekyi Township, as political prisoners held in an undisclosed prison issued a statement urging ethnic armed organizations opposed to military rule to cooperate with the Steering Council for the Emergence of a Federal Democratic Union (SCEF). On th

Myanmar soldiers walk along a street during a protest against the military coup in Yangon, Myanmar, on Feb 28, 2021. (File photo: Reuters) NAY PYI TAW — Female prisoners in ‌Myanmar are subjected to widespread torture, sexual violence and life-threatening medical neglect, Human Rights Watch said on Wednesday, underlining the chronic ill-treatment of thousands of detainees in the war-torn nation. Since the military seized power in a February 2021 coup, a protracted civil war h