For centuries, the small northern Myanmar city of Bhamo has owed its prosperity to its importance as a ferry terminus and ...

The military government acknowledged it withdrew forces from a city on the northeastern border with China after it was taken over by an alliance of ethnic armed groups it has been battling for months.

Continuing administrative operations and search for local enlistees by the Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA) ...

The MNDAA is a military force of the Kokang minority, who are ethnic Chinese, and the TNLA represents the Taang, or Palaung, ethnic minority. The groups have been fighting for decades for greater ...

But the fall of a regional military headquarters — one of 14 in Myanmar and home to thousands of government soldiers — would be a major defeat for the junta, which has been on a war footing ...