• The United Nations says Myanmar's military has released 109 children from its ranks, the largest such release since the government agreed two years ago to stop using child soldiers. (voanews.com)
  • These graphic images are among a cache of files recently obtained by RFA Burmese that document atrocities apparently committed by soldiers during military operations in Myanmar's war-torn Sagaing region. (rfa.org)
  • Earlier on November 13, forty-five Myanmar soldiers, including officers, had fled to Mizoram after the CNDF took control of two military bases in Myanmar's Chin state and subsequently were airlifted by IAF helicopters to Manipur's Moreh town and they were handed over to Myanmar's military government the next day. (morungexpress.com)
  • Since Myanmar's reformist government signed an agreement with the United Nations to end the recruitment of children under the age of 18 to serve for armed forces, the number of reported cases of child soldiers declined to 32 in 2012 from 172 in 2009. (tokyoweekender.com)
  • Myanmar's military released 53 children and young people from service on Monday as part of an effort to rid its ranks of underage soldiers. (blogspot.com)
  • Human rights groups have long accused Myanmar's military, known as the Tatmadaw, of abuses such as using child soldiers, forcibly recruiting conscripts and confiscating land. (blogspot.com)
  • Operating on the Myanmar-China border, the UWSA is regarded as the largest and best equipped of Myanmar's armed ethnic groups. (blogspot.com)
  • Despite the efforts made by the ASEAN chair and Myanmar to promote cooperation in ASEAN, it is regrettable to see the return of the decision made last year which Myanmar in principle is unable to accept," Myanmar's Foreign Affairs Ministry said in a statement Monday night. (outlookindia.com)
  • The brutal gang rape that Habiba and her sister endured is a story that is becoming depressingly familiar among the thousands of Rohingya refugees fleeing to Bangladesh to escape the violence of Myanmar's soldiers. (blogspot.com)
  • Buddhist villagers and Myanmar troops killed 10 Rohingya men in Rakhine state. (abc.net.au)
  • Seven Myanmar soldiers have been sentenced to '10 years in prison with hard labour in a remote area' for participating in a massacre of 10 Rohingya Muslim men in a village in north-western Rakhine state last September, the army said. (abc.net.au)
  • The Rohingya men from the northern Rakhine village of Inn Din were buried in a mass grave in early September after being hacked to death or shot by Buddhist neighbours and soldiers. (abc.net.au)
  • And Rohingya witnesses said soldiers plucked the 10 from among hundreds of men, women and children who had sought safety on a nearby beach. (abc.net.au)
  • Ties between Bangladesh and Myanmar have soured since about 740,000 Rohingya Muslims fled the Buddhist-majority country in 2017 following a military clampdown in restive Rakhine state. (thedailystar.net)
  • Bangladesh and Myanmar signed an agreement in November 2017 for the repatriation of the Rohingya, but the persecuted Muslim minority has refused to go back unless they are granted citizenship and other rights. (thedailystar.net)
  • Rahman said Rohingya arrivals from Myanmar have almost stopped, with none arriving in the past few weeks. (thedailystar.net)
  • Bonjour Planet Earth: 'Soldiers raped us one by one,' says Rohingya woman who fled Myanmar. (blogspot.com)
  • They tied both of us to the bed and raped us one by one," said 20-year-old Habiba, who has now found shelter with a Rohingya refugee family a few kilometres (miles) from the Bangladesh-Myanmar border. (blogspot.com)
  • Roughly one million Rohingya Muslims live as refugees in southern Bangladesh, having fled waves of violence at home in Buddhist-majority Myanmar. (vice.com)
  • A 50-year-old Rohingya man in the camp told VICE World News on the condition of anonymity that he would prefer returning to his home in Myanmar, and that being sent to the island would only make that more difficult. (vice.com)
  • Ongoing attempts to repatriate refugees to Myanmar have failed as Rohingya refuse to return without basic rights such as citizenship and freedom of movement. (vice.com)
  • Myanmar Said the Rohingya Lied. (vice.com)
  • This is the crack in the armour of impunity in the history of the Myanmar army's campaign against the Rohingya and other ethnic nationalities. (globalnewsvideo.com)
  • Suu Kyi, in her first address to the nation since attacks by Rohingya Muslim insurgents on Aug. 25 sparked a military response that has forced more than 410,000 Rohingya into Bangladesh, said Myanmar did not fear international scrutiny and was committed to a sustainable solution to the conflict. (euronews.com)
  • He stayed as news spread of atrocities that soldiers had committed in other Rohingya villages across northern Rakhine State, Myanmar. (amnesty.org.au)
  • Abdu Salam and I sat in his recently erected bamboo shelter at the edge of Kutupalong Extension, the ever-growing refugee camp in southern Bangladesh that houses most of the 688,000 Rohingya who have fled Myanmar since last August. (amnesty.org.au)
  • Then, following the 25 August attacks on around 30 security force outposts by the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA), the Myanmar military unleashed a campaign of violence against the Rohingya across northern Rakhine State. (amnesty.org.au)
  • Soldiers and vigilantes looted and torched Rohingya markets or, as in Hpon Nyo Leik, restricted market access to people holding a National Verification Card (NVC), a temporary identification document that most of the Rohingya community rejects, since it fails to recognise them as citizens. (amnesty.org.au)
  • The Myanmar military must have known what was to follow when, in many Rohingya villages, it then blocked people from going to their paddy fields. (amnesty.org.au)
  • The first influx from Myanmar happened in February 2021 after the Military junta seized power. (morungexpress.com)
  • Japan today has retained significant political and economic influence over the Myanmar military in the wake of the 2021 Myanmar coup d'état. (wikipedia.org)
  • Myanmar democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi (C) holds a bouquet flowers as she walks through the international airport in Yangon on September 16, 2012. (hurriyetdailynews.com)
  • Democracy champion Aung San Suu Kyi left Myanmar Sunday for a landmark trip to the United States, set to see her feted by the US president and quizzed on the progress of reforms. (hurriyetdailynews.com)
  • Wunna Maung Lwin was appointed foreign minister after the military seized power in Myanmar last year, ousting the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi. (outlookindia.com)
  • Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi condemned all human rights violations on Tuesday and said anyone responsible for abuses in troubled Rakhine State would face the law. (euronews.com)
  • Soldiers in the photos sport the arm badge of the Myanmar Army and, in at least one photo, the Northwest Military Command based in Sagaing. (rfa.org)
  • On Sunday, weather conditions are expected to be favourable and then the Myanmar army men will be evacuated," an official told IANS on the condition of anonymity. (morungexpress.com)
  • The Myanmar Army soldiers approached the police and we handed them over to the Assam Rifles. (morungexpress.com)
  • Besides soldiers, around 1,400 Myanmarese, including women and children, took shelter in Mizoram's Champhai earlier this week following the gunfight between the Army and CNDF cadres. (morungexpress.com)
  • United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged Myanmar to put an end to the recruitment of child soldiers by closing a loophole that allows the recruitment of 16-year-olds who have finished 10th grade and obtained special authorization from the Office of the Adjutant General to join the army, reports The Associated Press. (tokyoweekender.com)
  • The Israeli army later claimed that al-Sharif, and another Palestinian, tried to stab an Israeli soldier. (countercurrents.org)
  • Following the incident and, throughout Azaria's trial, Abu Shamsiyah and his family experienced much harassment by the Israeli army for revealing the truth that Israel wishes to keep hidden: the brutality of its soldiers, and the intrinsic relationship between the occupation army and the illegal Jewish settlers. (countercurrents.org)
  • Arakan Army and Myanmar army has been fighting in Rakhine State since last year. (arakan.news)
  • Villagers from Pha Yar Poun village are sleeping on the ground after Myanmar army set fire their houses on September 3. (arakan.news)
  • Hun Manet, who heads Cambodia's army and is Hun Sen's favored successor, accompanied his father during his visit to Myanmar. (outlookindia.com)
  • Violence flared a year ago when the Arakan Army attacked Myanmar police, forcing thousands from their homes. (aljazeera.com)
  • Yangon, Myanmar - A year ago, four police stations in the conflict-ridden western Rakhine State of Myanmar came under attack from the Arakan Army (AA) leaving an estimated 13 officers dead and nine injured. (aljazeera.com)
  • Rakhine has been rocked by violence between the Myanmar military and the rebel Arakan Army. (aljazeera.com)
  • 11/03/2020 Indonesia (International Christian Concern) - According to an independent investigation, a soldier from the Indonesian Army tortured and shot dead a 67-year-old Protestant pastor, during a search for missing weapons and the whereabouts of separatists last September in Indonesia's restive Papua province. (persecution.org)
  • Fighting between the Karen National Liberation Army and the government's Border Guard Force resulted in four BGF being killed two KNLA soldiers wounded. (warsintheworld.com)
  • Indian Insurgent Groups (IIGs) operating from Myanmar, particularly ULFA-I (United Liberation Front of Asom-Independent), NSCN-K (National Socialist Council of Nagaland - Khaplang), led by its current chairman Yung Aung, and NSCN-IM (National Socialist Council of Nagaland - Isak Muivah), are trying to relocate their bases near the border due to persistent action by the Myanmar Army over the last few months, according to an assessment by central intelligence agencies. (hindustantimes.com)
  • NSCN-IM, too, was also planning relocation of its bases because of the presence and movement of the Myanmar Army in areas controlled by them across the border. (hindustantimes.com)
  • A counter-insurgency official, requesting anonymity, argued that the cadres of north-east-based outfits have always moved to different locations whenever there has been action by the Myanmar Army. (hindustantimes.com)
  • Were German army soldiers killed after a strike in Ukraine? (euronews.com)
  • I heard the same story again and again: the Myanmar military squeezed them out of northern Rakhine State by driving them to the brink of starvation. (amnesty.org.au)
  • Three soldiers of other rank were demoted to the rank of 'private', permanently dismissed from the military and sentenced to 10 years with hard labour at a prison in a remote area. (abc.net.au)
  • The United Nations says at least seven other armed groups, recruit and use child soldiers in Myanmar, which is emerging from years of direct military rule. (voanews.com)
  • Washington Post) - Myanmar is still recruiting and using child soldiers, despite embracing democratic reforms and a U.N. agreement to end the practice, a human rights group said Wednesday. (watchlist.org)
  • Myanmar has made significant progress in curbing the use of child soldiers, according to a UN report, but still faces challenges to completely root out the recruitment of children. (tokyoweekender.com)
  • But the report also said the use of child soldiers still persists among armed groups including Kachin, Karen, Shan State and Wa State rebel groups. (tokyoweekender.com)
  • The majority of recruited child soldiers were aged 14-17, but "children as young as 10 years old have also been reported to have been recruited," according to a monitoring task force. (tokyoweekender.com)
  • I held my breath yesterday, waiting for the US State Department to issue its latest annual list of governments implicated in the use of child soldiers . (hrw.org)
  • It restores Burma and Iraq to the list, acknowledging continued recruitment of child soldiers by government forces in both countries. (hrw.org)
  • The Niger government provides support for a self-defense group known for using child soldiers, while in Iran, government forces have recruited Afghan refugees, including children, to fight in Syria (as Human Rights Watch documented last year, in part by reviewing the ages on tombstones where Iran buried combatants killed in Syria). (hrw.org)
  • The report accompanying the list documents continued use of child soldiers by the Afghan National Police and the Afghan Local Police, a network of local defense forces. (hrw.org)
  • Under the 2008 Child Soldiers Prevention Act, listed governments are not eligible for certain forms of US military assistance unless they receive a waiver from the president. (hrw.org)
  • Lok-Dessallien also called on armed ethnic groups to stop recruiting child soldiers. (blogspot.com)
  • Rakhine woman killed by Myanmar solider in Kyauktaw on April 1, 2020 Sittway. (arakan.news)
  • The agreement was approved by the Japanese Parliament and pledged to give Myanmar US$200 million in reparations and $50 million to support economic cooperation over the next 10 years which would come to include the rebuilding of Yangon Port. (wikipedia.org)
  • The Nobel laureate, who was elected to parliament this year, flew out of Yangon accompanied by new US ambassador to Myanmar Derek Mitchell, according to an AFP reporter at the scene. (hurriyetdailynews.com)
  • The statements made by the men in the video appear in line with reports of attacks on civilians by junta troops in Sagaing and elsewhere in Myanmar, amid military offensives against the PDF, ethnic armies, and other anti-junta forces. (rfa.org)
  • Almost 40 Myanmar junta troops were reportedly killed on Monday when People's Defense Forces (PDF) staged multiple ambushes on regime convoys in three townships in Sagaing and Mandalay regions. (irrawaddy.com)
  • Myanmar junta troops have killed four civilians in Sagaing Region since July 17, including a teenage boy and two women in their late 80s, as well as seven resistance fighters during their raids on villages in Khin-U Township, while forcing over 10,000 locals to flee their homes. (irrawaddy.com)
  • Recovered bodies of the victims of a landslide are shrouded in green plastic sheets at a jade mining area of Hpakant, Kachin state, Myanmar on Tuesday, Aug. 15, 2023. (cnyhomepage.com)
  • A member of Launglon People's Defense Force (PDF) was killed in a clash with the Myanmar junta's forces on 21 November. (thechindwin.com)
  • Anam added the soldier named Alpius Hasim Madi shot the pastor while attempting to collect information about a missing weapon believed to have been seized by pro-separatist rebels from the soldier who was shot dead earlier. (persecution.org)
  • Over the last few years, there has been more coordinated action against these outfits by both Indian and Myanmar armies and rebels have faced huge setbacks but they always manage to move to a different location," he said. (hindustantimes.com)
  • Aizawl, November 18 (IANS) Inclement weather since Friday has become an obstacle in evacuating 29 Myanmar soldiers, who sought refuge in Mizoram on Thursday after their military camp in the neighbouring country was captured by anti-government forces, an official said on Saturday. (morungexpress.com)
  • The Myanmar soldiers had fled their camp at Tuibual in Chin state, near the India-Myanmar border along Mizoram, after it was captured by the Chin National Defence Force (CNDF), the armed wing of the Chin National Organisation (CNO). (morungexpress.com)
  • The soldiers crossed the Tiau river to enter Mizoram and sought shelter in Indian territory. (morungexpress.com)
  • Inclement weather caused obstacles in evacuating 29 Myanmar soldiers, including a major and a captain fled to Mizoram after their camp in Myanmar. (indiatimes.com)
  • Residents of Sintgu township told RFA's Myanmar Service that around 40 armed soldiers entered Ngwe Daung, Nyaung Wun and Ye Htut villages on Sept. 24, demanding that they dismantle their homes and relocate within a week because they had "encroached on military land. (globalsecurity.org)
  • The soldiers claim that 72 of the 240 houses in Ngwe Daung had encroached on military land, as well as 60 of the 1,000 houses in Nyaung Wun and all 60 houses in Ye Htut. (globalsecurity.org)
  • Buddhist villagers attacked some of them with swords and soldiers shot the others dead, the military had said. (abc.net.au)
  • Since the military handed power to a semi-civilian government in 2011, it has taken some steps to professionalize the armed forces, including the release of soldiers recruited while under the age of 18. (blogspot.com)
  • Soldiers in the Myanmar military have admitted to carrying out gross human rights abuses on the orders of the military. (electionsinfo.net)
  • Soldiers stopped a minibus carrying even passengers including 81 years old Buddhist monk at the check point near the state capital, Sittway, and forced the car to park inside the military base on April 17. (arakan.news)
  • Burkina Faso Soldiers Announce Overthrow of Military Government in Second Coup. (blackchristiannews.com)
  • That rebuke was issued shortly after Myanmar declined to let an ASEAN special envoy meet with Suu Kyi, who has been in detention since the military took power. (outlookindia.com)
  • Hun Sen traveled to Myanmar in January, becoming the first foreign leader to visit since the military takeover. (outlookindia.com)
  • But in a sign that attitudes in Japan are mixed, Japanese brewery Kirin Holdings announced on Monday that it has decided to withdraw from its business in Myanmar and terminate its joint venture with a military-linked partner. (outlookindia.com)
  • The majority came in 2017, fleeing a Myanmar military campaign that rights groups and United Nations investigators have called genocide. (vice.com)
  • An investigation by the UN concluded military leaders in Myanmar should be prosecuted for genocide and other crimes against humanity including murder, rape, torture, enslavement and persecution. (globalnewsvideo.com)
  • Soldiers and Diplomacy explores Burma's relations with the outside world since independence in 1948, and addresses the key question of the ongoing role of the military in Burma's foreign policy post-junta context. (asiabookroom.com)
  • Those released Thursday were under 18 when Myanmar, also known as Burma, signed an agreement with the United Nations in 2012 outlining measures to end the practice. (voanews.com)
  • Founded in 1993 by a group of Myanmar journalists living in exile in Thailand, The Irrawaddy is a leading source of reliable news, information, and analysis on Burma/Myanmar and the Southeast Asian region. (irrawaddy.com)
  • On 9 November 1954, the treatment of Burma by the Japanese in WW2 was settled by the peace treaty and reparations agreement signed by Myanmar foreign minister Kyaw Nyein and Japanese foreign minister Okazaki Katsuo. (wikipedia.org)
  • As Myanmar, also known as Burma, prepares for its first general election in 20 years, former political prisoners, rights activists and refugee leaders in Thailand doubt it will bring about political change. (dw.com)
  • Human rights groups say that the ruling junta in Myanmar (Burma) is increasingly persecuting religious minorities, particularly Christians and Muslims. (dw.com)
  • It is believed that the Junta in Myanmar or Burma, is trying to avert possible protests about the incident. (dw.com)
  • Soldiers and Diplomacy in Burma: Understanding the Foreign Relations of the Burmese. (asiabookroom.com)
  • The United Nations and the United States described it as ethnic cleansing - an accusation which Myanmar denies. (abc.net.au)
  • David Brenner, who researches ethnic armed conflict in Myanmar, met AA commander-in-chief Tun Myat Naing in 2014 when the group was still operating in Kachin State, along the Chinese border in northern Myanmar. (aljazeera.com)
  • Jade mining also plays a role in the decades-long struggle of ethnic Kachin rebel groups in Myanmar for greater autonomy. (cnyhomepage.com)
  • But when, at the end of 2017, the Myanmar military's starvation tactics left Abdu Salam's family struggling to find food, they were forced to join the exodus to Bangladesh. (amnesty.org.au)
  • Militants Kill 15 Soldiers, 3 Civilians in Two Separate Attacks in. (blackchristiannews.com)
  • Authorities in Myanmar have filed charges against two soldiers who allegedly killed two civilians. (dw.com)
  • It covers threats and MINUSCA soldiers in the North West on 9 April, which also sparked the violence against aid destruction of a MINUSCA forward base by local civilians, during which organisations, and health two peacekeepers were injured. (who.int)
  • Around 30 regime troops were reportedly killed on Monday morning when Tamu-PDF used mines to attack junta soldiers escorting a convoy of eight vehicles traveling between Yan Linn Phine and Wi Toke villages on the Tamu-Kale highway in Sagaing Region's Tamu Township. (irrawaddy.com)
  • The troops raided villages in the southeast and northeast of Khin-U and around half of the soldiers reportedly remain in Khin-U Town. (irrawaddy.com)
  • ASEAN leaders at a special meeting last April issued a statement expressing a consensus calling for the immediate cessation of violence, a dialogue among all concerned parties, mediation by an ASEAN special envoy, provision of humanitarian aid through ASEAN channels, and a visit to Myanmar by the special envoy to meet all concerned parties. (outlookindia.com)
  • This week Bangladesh told the UN Security Council that it will no longer be able to take in refugees from Myanmar. (thedailystar.net)
  • A majority of the refugees live in relief camps and government buildings, while many others are accommodated by their relatives and a large number of people of Myanmar have been staying in rented houses. (morungexpress.com)
  • Mae Sot on Thailand's border is home to over 120,000 refugees from Myanmar who have fled conflict, as well as to former dissidents and political prisoners who have escaped torture. (dw.com)
  • Today's release is the result of continued efforts of the Government of Myanmar and the Tatmadaw to put an end to the harmful practice of recruiting and using children," said Renata Lok-Dessallien, the UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator in Myanmar, in a statement. (blogspot.com)
  • Get The Irrawaddy's latest news, analyses and opinion pieces on Myanmar in your inbox. (irrawaddy.com)
  • Matthew Smith, chief executive of Fortify Rights, a human rights group, told NBC news: "This is the first time that Myanmar soldiers are coming forward in this way. (globalnewsvideo.com)
  • Four columns of junta soldiers, including over 100 from Ye-U Township and 60 who were airlifted into Khin-U, have been raiding villages in the township since July 17. (irrawaddy.com)
  • Myanmar soldiers and polices with full weapons and ammunitions have reportedly defected to Chin National Defense Forces (CNDF), the armed wing of Chin National Organization in September, according to statement released by CNO/CNDF on 01 October. (thechindwin.com)
  • U Saw and U Ottama came to believe that Myanmar could only gain independence with Japan's help. (wikipedia.org)
  • Japan's foreign minister met in Tokyo on Monday with Hun Sen's son and agreed to cooperate in dealing with the situation in Myanmar. (outlookindia.com)
  • The organization vows to end military's rule and support establishment of federal democracy in Myanmar. (thechindwin.com)
  • Kiev accused Russia on Saturday of committing a war crime by executing Ukrainian soldiers who had signalled their intention to surrender. (hurriyetdailynews.com)
  • The soldiers insulted, "Buddhist monks in Rakhine are bastard and trouble makers, always. (arakan.news)
  • A total of eight polices and two soldiers have defected to CNO/CNDF within September, the statement added. (thechindwin.com)
  • Myanmar junta regime hands former State Counsellor Aung Sang Suu Kyi a 7-year jail term today, leaving her behind bars for a total of. (thechindwin.com)
  • Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) yesterday handed back a Myanmar soldier more than two months after he strayed across the border into a jungle in the Muslim-majority nation, a senior official said. (thedailystar.net)
  • Bangladesh in recent months has stepped up security near the border to curb smuggling of Yaba -- a popular methamphetamine pill -- across the border from Myanmar, he said. (thedailystar.net)
  • The briefing comes as the Myanmar government says it's ready to start repatriating people from Bangladesh . (amnesty.org.au)
  • Today we have handed him over to Myanmar border police through a flag meeting," said Rahman, regional commander of BGB. (thedailystar.net)
  • The Assam Rifles, which guarding the unfenced 1,643-km India-Myanmar border has stepped up its vigilance along the frontier. (morungexpress.com)
  • King, the U.S. soldier who sprinted into North Korea across the heavily fortified border between the Koreas two months ago was released into American custody, the White House announced Wednesday. (kget.com)
  • WASHINGTON (AP) - The U.S. has secured the release of a U.S. soldier who sprinted across a heavily fortified border into North Korea more than two months ago, and he is on his way back to America, officials announced Wednesday. (kget.com)
  • Citing security concerns, Myanmar has cancelled voting in over 3,400 villages in the border regions, disenfranchising over 1.5 million people. (dw.com)
  • And in February, an Algerian soldier was killed in a car bomb attack in Timiaouine, in the south of the country on the border with Mali. (alarabiya.net)
  • Villagers told RFA that soldiers are now encamped on the site of the former Great Wall plantation, east of Nyaung Wun village, and telling residents to evacuate their homes daily. (globalsecurity.org)
  • A Myanmar court refused to dismiss a case against Reuters journalists Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo after their lawyers insisted last week that the evidence does not support the charges. (abc.net.au)
  • "[The findings] are based on the dying man's account given to at least two witnesses before he died that he saw the soldier at the crime scene along with three or four other soldiers," Mohammad Choirul Anam, a Komnas HAM commissioner, told journalists on Nov. 2. (persecution.org)
  • Abdu Salam stayed in his village as Myanmar soldiers and local vigilantes burned down dozens of homes there last August. (amnesty.org.au)
  • I realized that Abdul Fattah al-Sharif was a Palestinian only when I saw an Israeli soldier kicking him. (countercurrents.org)
  • Only then, I realized that the other person was, in fact, an Israeli soldier. (countercurrents.org)
  • Israeli soldiers kill Palestinians in cold blood, while accusing Palestinians of trying to stab soldiers. (countercurrents.org)
  • Similarly, five soldiers from battalion no. 222 defected to Chinland Defense Forces - Senthang with two weapons of MA1and ammunition. (thechindwin.com)
  • In his video testimony, Pvt Myo Win Tun, a soldier in the 565th light infantry battalion, admitted to carrying out orders to "shoot all that you can see and all that you hear" before dumping 30 bodies near a cell phone tower. (globalnewsvideo.com)
  • Tiny toy soldier art, South Asian celebrate annual festivals, housing demand climbs in Myanmar and more in today's daily brief. (baltimoresun.com)
  • An Algerian soldier was killed during a clash with "an armed terrorist group," in the central region of Ain Defla, the defense ministry said Sunday, adding that an operation was still underway. (alarabiya.net)
  • Cambodia, the current ASEAN chair, said earlier this month that members of the regional group had failed to reach a consensus on inviting Myanmar Foreign Minister Wunna Maung Lwin to its meetings on Thursday and Friday in Cambodia's capital, Phnom Penh. (outlookindia.com)
  • Dragon Rangers Mandalay, an urban guerilla group, claimed responsibility for the attack and said three soldiers died and three vehicles were damaged. (irrawaddy.com)
  • A villager said: "The first group [of junta soldiers] came in secretly. (irrawaddy.com)
  • During the socialist period, Japan and Myanmar held some of the strongest ties among Asian countries with the relationship with Ne Win's government often being called "special relations. (wikipedia.org)
  • Myanmar will not participate in this week's meetings in Cambodia of foreign ministers from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, spurning an invitation to send a non-political representative instead of its chief diplomat, its government said Monday. (outlookindia.com)
  • 29 more Myanmar soldiers, including a major and a captain fled to Mizoram's Champhai district after their camp at Tuibual in Chin state captured by the civilian armed forces. (morungexpress.com)
  • Since then, 32,000 people including women and children from Myanmar have taken shelter in the northeastern state. (morungexpress.com)
  • BANGKOK (AP) - The bodies of 33 people have been recovered from a landslide at a jade mine in northern Myanmar and rescuers are searching for at least three people believed to be missing, a rescue official said Wednesday. (cnyhomepage.com)
  • Trying to reach people in Myanmar isn't easy under normal circumstances. (npr.org)
  • As we did this morning, I would like, on behalf of us all and on behalf of the citizens of all our countries, to express our heartfelt solidarity with the people, our sisters and brothers, in China and Myanmar, and indeed of other countries that have experienced natural disasters large and small. (who.int)
  • Left unanswered were questions of why North Korea - which has tense relations with Washington over the North's nuclear program, support for Russia's war in Ukraine and other issues - had agreed to turn him over and why the soldier had fled in the first place. (kget.com)