News About Myanmar

File photo showing a military aircraft involved in operations. Photo: CINCDS DMG Newsroom 23 September 2026, Ponnagyun A junta aerial assault dropped nearly 20 bombs on Phetkya Village in Ponnagyun Township, an area under Arakan Army control in Arakan State, early on September 23, killing an internally displaced person and a local resident. At around 1:00 a.m. on Wednesday, junta aircraft, including two jet fighters and a Y-12 aircraft, carried out coordinated bombing runs, d

The terrorist Myanmar military launched midnight airstrikes on Phet Kya Village in Ponnagyun Township, Arakan State today, September 23. At around 12:40 AM midnight today, September 23, the terrorist Myanmar military used two jet fighters and a Y-12 aircraft to drop nearly 20 bombs from the air on Phet Kya Village in Ponnagyun Township. During the bombing attack, 57-year-old U Maung Mya Kyi, an internally displaced person from Sanpya Ward in Ponnagyun Town who was sheltering

Photo: PPIB Myanmar’s military-backed Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) concluded its fourth party congress by reappointing its traditional "old guard" to top leadership positions, while officially inducting coup leader Min Aung Hlaing as a formal party member. The moves, finalized during the central executive committee reshuffle on September 19 and 20, 2026, signal that the regime's political proxy will maintain its rigid pro-military trajectory without any signi

Mizzima The UN human rights office called on states not to legitimize Myanmar’s military authorities and to end arms transfers to them, repeating the message at the UN General Assembly in New York on 21 September. According to a statement published by the UN Human Rights Office (OHCHR), Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights Claudia Fuentes Julio, briefing the General Assembly on compliance with international humanitarian law in conflicts worldwide, said the High Commis

Photo: SCEF members during an online meeting. Political prisoners at a prison—the name of which is withheld for security reasons—have urged ethnic armed organizations opposed to the military dictatorship to collaborate with the Steering Committee for the Emergence of a Federal Democratic Union (SCEF). (SCEF) Mizzima Political prisoners from an unnamed prison, kept anonymous for security reasons, have urged anti-military dictatorship Ethnic Armed Organizations (EAOs) to collab

Khaing Lu Hla (Roma Mray) Narinjara News, September 22, 2026 The Arakan Army (AA) released a statement on Tuesday, accompanied by photographic evidence, detailing the seizure of military equipment and the recovery of junta casualties following a major battle in Mindon Township, near the Rakhine-Magway border. According to the statement, the weapons, ammunition, and bodies of Myanmar military soldiers were secured during intense clashes on September 20 and 21 near Point 948 Hi