In this Jan. 12, 2015 photo, Ta’ang National Liberation Army troops march in Mar Wong Village, northern Shan State during a celebration marking the 52nd anniversary of their insurrection against ...

BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar’s military has taken back control of a major district capital in Shan State more than a year after losing it to an armed ethnic minority rebel group, state media reported on ...

(Bangkok) – An ethnic armed group in northern Myanmar has abducted and forcibly recruited civilians fleeing fighting in Shan State, Human Rights Watch said today. Myanmar’s military also has a long ...

The united front against the junta in northern Shan State fell apart last week, leaving Beijing as the key powerbroker on Myanmar’s northeastern frontier.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In this photo provided by the Kokang online media, members of an ethnic armed forces group, one of the three militias known as the ...

On a typical day, Mai Rupa travels through his native Shan State, in eastern Myanmar, documenting the impact of war. A video journalist with the online news outlet Shwe Phee Myay, he travels to remote ...

The Three Brotherhood Alliance has launched coordinated attacks aimed at dislodging the junta and its allies from strategically important regions of Shan State bordering China. On Friday morning, an ...

Ethnic rebels fighting Burma's military junta claimed Wednesday that an entire army battalion surrendered to their fighters. The Three Brotherhood Alliance, comprised of three different ethnic groups, ...

BANGKOK — Recently renewed combat in northeastern Myanmar between troops of the military government and ethnic minority militias has in the past few days become more complicated, as two minority ...