Jin San Jiao is latest northern Shan State trade hub in crosshairs of ethnic Brotherhood Alliance.
The Irrawaddy’s latest roundup includes incidents in Shan State and Sagaing and Mandalay regions.
An offensive by the Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army captured the Kyin San Kyawt border gate on Sunday, local media said.
Drills follow surge of attacks on junta forces by ethnic armies in northern Myanmar and torching of convoy of trucks in a border town.
The current war in Myanmar differs from past conflicts in the country because ethnic armies are no longer on the defensive, the spokesman for the most powerful ethnic army in Rakhine State told the Irrawaddy in an exclusive interview on Friday.
Chinese embassy urges citizens to flee Laukkai Town as ethnic armies prepare to drive Myanmar junta troops from Kokang’s capital.
Indonesia on Friday said it had hosted «positive» talks with the main sides of the Myanmar conflict.
Also over the past seven days, Min Aung Hlaing failed to boost morale in battered army, while the junta tried to stir Shan fears, mobilized troops to defend Naypyitaw, and dissolved rival of its proxy USDP.
The Ta'ang National Liberation Army says it has seized the large Mine Kyat base in Lashio Township amid junta airstrikes.
The former capital is turning into a ghost town after sunset as workers race to the safety of their homes to avoid junta troops, residents and vendors say.
Regime’s decision to station troops at schools in Myanmar’s commercial capital and rumors of forced conscriptions puts city residents on edge.
The regime says anyone using unlicensed communication devices could be jailed for up to a year.
The Irrawaddy’s latest roundup includes incidents in Shan and Rakhine states and Yangon, Sagaing and Magwe regions.
Junta forces have seized business owners and other civilians in multiple townships following renewed fighting with the Arakan Army.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees says more than 2 million civilians have left their homes since the 2021 coup.
It was the second operation by the ethnic army in two days to free civilians, many of whom were used as human shields by junta troops in the town near Rakhine’s capital.
Several groups raided junta positions in Taze town but withdrew after three hours.
Fighting continues in Saigaing Region’s Kani Township as resistance forces prevent regime troops from regaining post near a major transport route.
Many in Myanmar are eager to see combat pilot and flight instructor Maj. Khaing Thant Moe face justice for the Air Force’s many massacres of civilians since the coup.
As residents flee Loikaw concern rises that the junta will incinerate the Kayah state capital as it did to Chin State’s Thantlang town.
The regime has cut supplies to the civilian population after the Arakan Army opened a new front in the resistance offensive.
The Tazaungdaing festival returned to Taunggyi on Tuesday after a three-year hiatus, but the regime-run event was muted amid the upsurge in fighting across the country.
A spokesman for the UN secretary-general called for extra humanitarian aid funding as the fighting has spread to more parts of the country, including urban areas.
The MNDAA, which was fighting junta troops nearby, blamed the shelling on the military’s regional operations command north of the town in northern Shan’s Kokang area.
Massive troop movement is reportedly underway as the junta reinforces its nerve center against an expanding resistance offensive.
Regime has retaliated against resistance operation to seize Kayah State capital with indiscriminate attacks that have killed around 70 residents, say local volunteers.
The TNLA attacked sites in Lashio and Hsipaw, prompting junta air strikes, while the MNDAA said it seized two regime bases in the Kokang area as part of Operation 1027.
Regime spokesman Major General Zaw Min Tun says the Brotherhood Alliance is fighting to seize ethnic Shan land, not to end military rule.
Ethnic army is also attacking junta bases in southern Chin State. It has pledged to continue targeting junta bases till the troops inside surrender.
Locals in Aceh last week turned away several boat arrivals from Bangladesh, saying they did not have the resources to accept more refugees; a UN team was en route.
In a separate development in the Brotherhood Alliance’s Operation 1027, the MNDAA seized three more junta outposts and many weapons in Shan State’s Kokang area.
Election commission dissolves Shan State Kokang Democratic Party—the main rival of the regime-backed Union Solidarity and Development Party—for violating junta’s political party law.
Brotherhood Alliance member says the regime has resorted to artillery, air and chemical attacks after losing Namkham on the Chinese border to the resistance earlier this month.
Junta troops sealed off Budalin’s public hospital after an alleged threat to force staff to stop working for the regime.
With the second wave of the Spring Revolution rising, it is time for regime forces to join the revolution against the junta, Chin National Front spokesman says.
