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The village of Ka Hnyat in Magway Region’s Salin Township after a junta raid on January 30 (Salin Township People’s Administrative Team)

Myanmar NowFebruary 3, 2025

Thousands flee as Myanmar junta forces torch Magway villages

fighting has been reported in northern Salin Township since early last month

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View of the Taung Kalat Buddhist complex on Mount Popa in Mandalay Region. A shrine in the complex is perched on an extinct volcano. The number of visitors has declined precipitously as more checkpoints with armed fighters have appeared on nearby roads and clashes have intensified between the military and anti-junta forces in central Myanmar and northern Shan State. (Photo: Sai Aung Main/AFP)

AFPJuly 31, 2024

War in Myanmar heartland silences volcano shrine

With clashes breaking out between the military and anti-junta forces in central Myanmar and northern Shan State, and more checkpoints appearing on nearby roads, the number of visitors to the Taung Kalat complex has declined precipitously

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Naw NawNovember 21, 2022

We need to defeat our enemy, but we also need to look within

A Kachin youth now living in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, reflects on the Kachin revolution as it enters its 63rd year

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Myanmar NowSeptember 15, 2019

The Tatmadaw Is Poised To Change Genuinely Now: Kachin Reverend

Dr. Hkalam Samson said he held a “friendly” conversation with Tatmadaw chief after the latter dropped a criminal complaint against him

Civil War

Thousands flee as Myanmar junta forces torch Magway villages

War in Myanmar heartland silences volcano shrine

We need to defeat our enemy, but we also need to look within

The Tatmadaw Is Poised To Change Genuinely Now: Kachin Reverend

Learning self-defence in a refugee camp: Rohingya women and girls train in taekwondo

Can Myanmar’s economy rebound after the Sagaing earthquake?

Inside the battle of Bawlakhe, where dreams of freedom fuel the fighting spirit of the Karenni resistance

As Myanmar’s junta rains destruction on civilians, locals learn how to defend themselves

Shan and Kokang forces hold talks to end territorial fighting

Rival Chin coalitions join forces to halt advance of junta convoy

Junta airstrikes kill elderly woman and other civilians in Pale Township

NUG will review sexual assault, other charges linked to Rebels tea company scandal

Myanmar resistance forces capture key junta position in Sagaing’s Pale Township

Myanmar junta airstrikes kill three civilians sheltering in Rakhine State monastery

Myanmar’s factories cling to life as power shortages persist

Bought Out or Seized: Mandalay farmers face impossible choices amid land grab

Myanmar junta partners with Chinese firm to build natural gas terminal despite Rakhine State conflict

Myanmar garment makers forced to exchange export earnings at junta-imposed rate

Thai officials call on Myanmar regime to crack down on fraud, trafficking gangs on Thai-Karen State border

Myanmar military continues to lose ground to anti-junta forces in northern Shan State

Despite escalating violence, Myanmar junta leader says elections will proceed

NUG-founded bank set to sell shares to meet ‘emergency needs’

Myanmar’s junta bears ‘sole responsibility’ for Suu Kyi’s health—NLD

Karenni youth fight for freedom at the cost of their lives and limbs

The mothers of the Magway resistance

A Myanmar artist finds freedom behind bars—by portraying prisoners’ oppression

As Myanmar’s revolution beckons, a new breed of activist photographers heeds the call

The man behind the Myanmar junta’s campaign of terror in Sagaing

Authorities tighten restrictions on passport process for Myanmar nationals in Thailand