The Kachin Independence Army and allies surrendered Sann Kywal Village after fierce fighting on Wednesday and have reportedly ...

By Latoya AbuluSonam Lama Hyolmo Myanmar’s Kachin state, near the border with China, is a global hub for rare earth minerals.

The two countries face risks from Myanmar’s civil war, logistical challenges and a potential pushback by rare earth giant ...

The Myanmar junta has recaptured two more military bases in Bhamo, Kachin State, but fighting continues in the town, ...

In Kachin State, the military scored its latest successes since launching a nationwide counteroffensive earlier this year, ...

Officials from India’s Ministry of Mines have reached out to the Kachin Independence Army (KIA), a powerful insurgent group ...

YANGON, Sept. 18 (Xinhua) -- Myanmar police have seized 209,950 stimulant tablets in northern Myanmar's Kachin state, the Central Committee for Drug Abuse Control (CCDAC) reported on Thursday. Acting ...

The Tamadaw, the military of Myanmar, has been attacking the ethnic minority Kachin people in what some observers are calling a genocide. Although much attention has been given to the ethnic Rohingya, ...

While the world’s attention has focused on the horror unleashed against the Rohingya population in Myanmar’s West, an old war in the country’s North has taken on a new ferocity, forcing thousands to ...

ON THE rare days when the power is not cut here, patrons at the local internet café read the good news coming from the lowlands. After decades of isolation, a wide-ranging push towards reform by ...

Despite progress in its transition to democracy, Myanmar has struggled to end all the ethnic insurgencies that have long divided the country. Now the Kachin — the last of the insurgent groups that ...

She had just finished describing how she had been raped by two men, dressed as policemen, when more police showed up. These police weren’t wearing uniforms, but everyone in the village in Burma’s ...