BANGKOKBANGKOK — Guerrillas from the Karen ethnic minority on Thursday claimed to have captured the last of the army’s outposts in Myawaddy township in eastern Myanmar, virtually clearing the way for ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Saw Win Myint, a commander of a military unit under the Karen National Union, the leading political body for the Karen ethnic ...

A little more than a year ago, the government’s military was on the back foot in Myanmar’s bloody civil war, pushed out of great swaths of the country’s north by an alliance of seasoned militias, and ...

BANGKOK — An entire Myanmar army battalion based near the Chinese border surrendered to an alliance of ethnic armed groups that launched a surprise offensive last month against the military, a ...

Ethnic rebels fighting Burma's military junta claimed Wednesday that an entire army battalion surrendered to their fighters. The Three Brotherhood Alliance, comprised of three different ethnic groups, ...

BANGKOKBANGKOK — Guerrilla fighters from the main ethnic Karen fighting force battling Myanmar’s military government have withdrawn from the eastern border town of Myawaddy two weeks after forcing the ...

Saw Win Myint, a commander of a military unit under the Karen National Union, the leading political body for the Karen ethnic minority that is part of the resistance against military rule in Myanmar, ...