Most of these factories are located in the Magway and Bago regions, situated on the western bank of the Irrawaddy River.

Attack on village of Kyauk Ni Maw, in Ramree island township, kills more than 40 people and destroys about 500 homes.

An airstrike by Myanmar’s army on a village under the control of an armed ethnic minority group has killed about 40 people and injured at least 20 others, officials of the group and a local charity say.

Dozens of people were killed in an air strike by Myanmar's military government in the western state of Rakhine this week, the United Nations said, as the Southeast Asia nation's civil war nears its fourth year.

The political landscape has been impacted by the rebel group Arakan Army (AA), which has defeated the military junta and taken control of the Western Command Headquarters in Rakhine State. With this major development,

Over 40 civilians, including women and children, were killed in Myanmar's Rakhine state due to military air attacks. The violence continues amid rising armed rebellion since the 2021 coup. The UN has condemned the atrocities and urged for humanitarian aid access as displacement increases.

2025 seems set to continue last year’s sharp increase in the number of retaliatory air and artillery attacks on resistance-held territories.

The Myanmar air force has bombed a fishing village in Rakhine state killing 41 civilians and wounding 52, most of them Rohingya Muslims, residents involved in rescue work said on Thursday, in an attack insurgents condemned as a war crime.

Over 40 people including women and children were killed in air attacks by Myanmar military in the western state of Rakhine this week AL Jazeera reported cit

China has much at stake. Its 771-kilometer oil and gas pipeline dissects Rakhine from its capital Sittwe through to Myanmar’s northern states and its security is behind speculation Beijing was prepared to put boots on the ground through a “joint security company” to be established with the military.

Indian Ambassador to Myanmar Abhay Thakur reviewed the operations of the Kaladan Project at the Sittwe Port in Myanmar Rakhine province on January 16-17

in Rakhine state, Myanmar, Wednesday, Jan.8, 2025. Credit: AP The military government has stepped up airstrikes over the past three years on armed pro-democracy groups collectively known as the ...