Despite China’s calls for it to stop fighting against the Myanmar junta, the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) has reopened an offensive front in the country’s northernmost Putao District, Kachin State, ...
“A Y-12 aircraft dropped bombs at around 9am.” The KIA fighters were joined by members of the Kuki National Army, Kachin People’s Defence Force, All Burma Student Defence Force (ABSDF), and the Gurkha ...
China on Wednesday renewed its push for successful Kachin rebels to stop fighting against the Myanmar junta in their state and safeguard Chinese investments. Chinese Communist Party Central Committee ...
A Kachin Independence Army (KIA) fighter at the Infantry Battalion 123 base in Nam Hpat Kar village, Kutkai Township, northern Shan State, which the KIA captured in January 2024. (Photo: Myat Pan) ...
The Kachin Independence Organization has seized a swathe of mineral rich territory on Myanmar’s border with China, but the group now has the tough task of running an ethnically diverse area mired in ...
The camp is in an area controlled by the Kachin Independence Organisation (KIO), one of several ethnic insurgent groups which have been fighting for self-rule for many decades. All the victims ...