Seng Moon grabbed her day-old baby and fled into the thick jungle, joining thousands of villagers escaping fighting between ethnic Kachin rebels and Myanmars army, now reinforced by a unit notorious ...

Myanmar, also known as Burma, has struggled to end the ethnic insurgencies that have long divided the country. Now, the last of the insurgent... For Myanmar's Kachin Rebels, Life Teeters Between War, ...

BANGKOK (AP) — A rebel group in Myanmar’s northern state of Kachin said its troops on Thursday attacked more than 10 army outposts along the main road to the state capital of Myitkyina, increasing the ...

More than 800 civilians in Kan See village in the war-torn Kachin state have fled to church-run IDP camps and relatives’ home, while another 600 have sought refuge in churches and monasteries. Relief ...

LAIZA, Myanmar (AP) — On the front lines, the army is pounding rebels with airstrikes and artillery. In the displacement camps, terrified civilians are building bomb shelters of sandbags and stones.

Mary Lu Ja, 33, a displaced Catholic from war-torn Myanmar’s northern Kachin state, didn’t expect she would be stuck in a makeshift camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs) for half her life. The ...

MYITKYINA, Myanmar – Mother-of-two Ah Chang and her family were jolted out of their sleep when gunfire ruptured the night’s calm in Ting Kok Village. As bullets struck their home, they desperately ...

BANGKOK — A prominent Christian church leader and human rights advocate from Myanmar’s Kachin ethnic minority was detained by the authorities just hours after he was released from prison under an ...

BANGKOK (AP) — A Myanmar military tribunal has sentenced six soldiers to 10 years in prison with hard labor for killing three civilians in war-torn Kachin state, officials said Saturday, in a move ...

1 of 5 — Kachin Independence Army recruits train at a military base in Maijiayang, Kachin State, Myanmar. The KIA has around 8,000 soldiers and has been fighting the Burmese government for ...