The Karen group and resistance forces seized the Pulutu base in Hpa-an District on Friday after a month of fighting, local and Thai media said.
Myanmar's military is stretched thin and facing multiple defeats across the country, analysts told DW, after a crucial town near the Thai border fell to pro-democracy forces. The town of Myawaddy ...
Footage also showed Thai military vehicles and troops stationed along the border. The KNU, one of Myanmar’s most powerful ethic armed organizations, said its armed wing captured Battalion 275 ...
Despite pressure from China and Thailand, the military regime is in a bind as it depends on scam warlord Saw Chit Thu’s Karen BGF to hold Myawaddy, argues Thet Htar Maung.
Interviews with resistance soldiers, activists, and internally displaced civilians in the KNU-controlled jungle ... The counterattack came after days of Myanmar military air strikes against ...
The rebel alliance has escalated its resistance since October, prompting brutal reprisals that have worsened Myanmar's humanitarian crisis. NHK spoke to the head of the Karen National Union (KNU ...
The KNU, which has struggled for decades to secure increased recognition of Karen peoples’ rights inside the Burmese federation, is widely known for sheltering and assisting victims of forced ...
More than 250 people from 20 nationalities who had been working in telecom fraud centres in Myanmar's Karen State have been released by an ethnic armed group and brought to Thailand. The workers ...
Like the DKBA, Saw Chit Thu broke away from the main Karen insurgent group, the KNU, in 1994, and allied himself to the Myanmar military. Under pressure from Thailand and China, both Saw Chit Thu ...
There is a lack of impartial, comparative accounts of post-ceasefire developments in Burma. Given the possibility of a KNU-SPDC ceasefire, it is important that all interested parties—the SPDC ...