China’s growing involvement in Myanmar’s civil war is propping up the regime for now, but Beijing underestimates the opposition’s resolve, fueling further instability.

Kyaw Swar Lin, a protege of the junta boss but untested in combat, takes operational command as the army faces a new wave of battlefield challenges on multiple fronts.

The Kachin Independence Army (KIA) opposes the 2021 coup in Myanmar, when democratically elected State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi, President Win Myint, and other leaders of the ruling party were ...

The Kachin Independence Army is one of the stronger ethnic armed groups, capable of manufacturing some of their own weapons, and whose fighters are battle-hardened from years of resistance.

In Kachin’s mountains, the mining industry thrives in the shadows of armed conflict, where control shifts between ethnic militias, the Kachin Independence Army and the NDA-K. These groups control the ...

Army leaders have become more outspoken about foreign support the tribal rebels are receiving. The generals won’t come right out and name China, but it is no secret that China has done little to curb ...

Leaders of India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Bhutan and Nepal were scheduled to attend the summit, along with those of Thailand and Myanmar. ... a spokesman for the Kachin Independence Army.

The Kachin Independence Army, an armed group fighting the generals in northern Myanmar, says at least 30 of the young soldiers it was training were killed in an air strike on April 1st.