I've always believed the best way to know a river ... totalitarian state controlled by a group of ruling generals who in 1989 changed the name of the former British colony from Burma to Myanmar ...

Falam township, Chin State – In the mountains of western Myanmar, photographs of fallen fighters line a wall of a rebel headquarters – an honour roll of some 80 young men, beginning with 28 ...

The Arakan Army must now consolidate its unprecedented territorial gains in Rakhine State and contend with humanitarian, intercommunal and international challenges.

The coming together of areas inhabited by communities in India’s Mizoram and Myanmar’s Chin State has New Delhi’s tacit support. Myanmar’s junta is not amused. Mizoram Chief Minister ...

also known as Karenni state, and elsewhere in eastern Myanmar. “Since the coup, many churches have been bombed and destroyed in Chin state — not just Chin, but in Karen and Karenni,” said ...

The two pro-democracy rebel groups from Myanmar are the Chinland Council, and the Interim Chin National Consultative ... arms supplier to the isolated state. Moscow's support has become vital ...

Earlier this year, the Arakan Army, one of the rebel groups from Myanmar's Rakhine state, captured the strategically important Paletwa town on the Kaladan River, near the Indian border.

extends beyond this hall and grows as war against Myanmar’s military grinds on in Chin State – a Christian region of the country bordering India where ethnic Chin fighters have expelled the military ...