Kachin

February 21, 2013
LAWA YANG, Myanmar--Kneeling beside a line of freshly dug trenches carved like one long, open wound into a lush hillside, the rebel sergeant peered through dusty binoculars at...

January 26, 2013
YANGON--Myanmar took a swipe at the United States on Jan. 26 for calling the country Burma, urging it to use its official title and avoid harming improving ties between the two ...

January 20, 2013
YANGON, Myanmar--Myanmar troops attacked rebel positions in northeast Kachin on Jan. 20 despite a ceasefire order from the president and an invitation to the rebels to take...

January 05, 2013
LAIZA, Myanmar--Ethnic Kachins living in makeshift camps in Myanmar described their terror at the army's use of air power during fighting with Kachin rebels seeking more...

January 03, 2013
YANGON, Myanmar--Myanmar's military acknowledged launching airstrikes against ethnic Kachin rebels in the north and said it captured a hilltop post from where the insurgents...

August 25, 2012
BEIJING -- China has forcibly returned scores of ethnic Kachins who have fled Myanmar because of civil war, putting them at risk of armed violence and abuse by Myanmar's army,...

August 09, 2012
BANGKOK--Reconciliation talks have ground to a halt as Myanmar’s central government and armed ethnic forces try to overcome decades of distrust.

April 30, 2012
NAYPYITAW, Myanmar -- Myanmar will choose a team of 50 peace negotiators led by a vice-president to settle a conflict in Kachin State and bring all ethnic groups into the...

April 29, 2012
YANGON--Myanmar will overhaul its peace negotiating teams in a bid to settle armed rebellions with ethnic rebel militias following a failure to end a stubborn conflict in the...
February 08, 2012
BEIJING -- Thousands of refugees from fighting in remote northern Myanmar have flooded into makeshift tent cities erected on the other side of the long border with China,...
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