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Members of the Karen National Liberation Army and People’s Defense Force examine two arrested soldiers after they captured an army outpost, in the southern part of Myawaddy township in Kayin state, Myanmar, March 11, 2024. (AP Photo/METRO)

Myanmar military begins basic training for draftees as resistance forces keep the pressure on

By Grant Peck - Associated Press

Military officers shout slogans during a parade to commemorate Myanmar's 79th Armed Forces Day, in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, Wednesday, March 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Thein Zaw) ** FILE **

Myanmar resistance group says its drones hit targets in the capital, but army says it shot them down

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A Myanmar’s truck driver is reflected on a mirror as his truck carrying aid leaves at a customs checkpoint near the border with Myanmar, in Mae Sot, Tak province Thailand Monday, March 25, 2024. Thailand delivered its first batch of humanitarian aid to war-torn Myanmar sending ten trucks over the border from the northern province of Tak in what they hope will be a continuing effort to ease the plight of millions of people displaced by fighting. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

Thailand sends aid to war-torn Myanmar, but critics say it will only help junta

By Jintamas Saksornchai - Associated Press

Myanmar's pro-democracy opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, right, and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton walk through the garden after meetings at Suu Kyi's residence in Yangon, Myanmar on Dec. 2, 2011. No bidders appeared at a court-ordered auction Wednesday, March 20, 2024 of the family home of Myanmar's imprisoned former leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, where she had been held under house arrest for nearly 15 years, legal officials said. (Saul Loeb/Pool Photo via AP, File)

No bidders in court-ordered auction of house where Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi was detained for years

By Grant Peck - Associated Press

FILE - U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres listens to a speech, during the opening of the High-Level Segment of the 55th session of the Human Rights Council at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, on Feb. 26, 2024. Military airstrikes in western Myanmar killed at least 25 members of the country’s Muslim Rohingya minority, including children, local media reported, prompting the U.N. chief to express concerns over the escalating violence. According to the reports, the airstrikes took place early on Monday March 18, 2024 morning and targeted the village of Thada, north of Minbya township in Rakhine state. (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP, File)

U.N. chief decries violence in west Myanmar as two dozen villagers are reported killed in airstrikes

By Grant Peck - Associated Press

People wait in line to enter into the Thai Embassy for visa appointments in Yangon, Myanmar, Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2024. Crowds of people have thronged to get passports and visas to neighboring Thailand in the two weeks since the government activated a law making at least 14 million young people subject to conscription.(AP Photo)

Many in Myanmar consider fleeing to Thailand to escape conscription into an army they despise

By Grant Peck - Associated Press

Military officers march during a parade to commemorate Myanmar's 78th Armed Forces Day in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, on March 27, 2023. Myanmar’s military government on Saturday Feb. 10, 2024 activated for the first time a decade-old conscription law that makes young men and women subject to at least two years of military service if called up, effective immediately. (AP Photo/Aung Shine Oo, File)

Facing setbacks against resistance forces, Myanmar’s military government activates conscription law

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Smoke is seen bellowing from a Myanmar Border Police post following fighting between Myanmar security forces and Arakan Army, an ethnic minority army, in Ghumdhum, Bandarban, Bangladesh, on Monday, Feb. 5, 2024. Nearly a hundred members of Myanmar's Border Guard Police have fled their posts and taken shelter in Bangladesh during fighting between Myanmar security forces and an ethnic minority army, an official of Bangladesh's border agency said Monday. (AP Photo/Shafiqur Rahman)

Myanmar government forces flee into Bangladesh during fighting with an ethnic armed group

By Julhas Alam - Associated Press

This photo provided by Kyaw Ko Lin shows a view of Laukkaing city in Shan state, Myanmar, Nov. 20, 2023. An alliance of ethnic armed groups in northeastern Myanmar has reportedly achieved one of the main goals it set when it launched an offensive last October by taking control of Laukkaing, a key city on the border with China, according to local residents and independent media accounts on Friday Jan. 5, 2024. (Kyaw Ko Lin via AP)

Myanmar confirms a key northeastern city on border with China has been seized by an ethnic alliance

By Grant Peck - Associated Press

Myanmar's Deputy Chairman of State Administration Council, Vice Senior Gen. Soe Win speaks during a ceremony marking Myanmar's 76th anniversary of Independence Day in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, Thursday, Jan. 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Aung Shine Oo)

Myanmar’s military government pardons 10,000 prisoners to mark Independence Day

By Grant Peck - Associated Press

Palestinian militants, some with guns raised in the air, celebrate by an Israeli tank at the border fence of the Gaza Strip on Oct. 7, 2023. The militant Hamas rulers of the Gaza Strip carried out an unprecedented, multi-front attack on Israel at daybreak, firing thousands of rockets as dozens of Hamas fighters infiltrated the heavily fortified border in several locations by air, land, and sea and catching the country off-guard on a major holiday. (AP Photo)

A year of war: 2023 sees worst-ever Israel-Hamas combat as Russian attacks on Ukraine grind on

By Jon Gambrell - Associated Press

Thai soldiers stand beside seized 50 million methamphetamine pills hidden in sacks during a news conference at Thongphaphum Police station in Kanchanaburi province, Thailand, Wednesday, Dec. 13, 2023. Thai police have seized what is being called a record haul of methamphetamine tablets in the western province of Kanchanaburi, close to the Myanmar border. (AP Photo/Keskawe Chongchareon)

Thai police seize a record haul of 50 million methamphetamine tablets near border with Myanmar

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In this photo provided by the Kokang online media, members of an ethnic armed forces group, one of the three militias known as the Three Brotherhood Alliance, check weapons the group allegedly seized from Myanmar's army outpost on a hill in Hsenwi township in Shan state, Myanmar, on Nov. 24, 2023. A major offensive against Myanmar's military-run government by an alliance of three militias of ethnic minorities has been moving at lightning speed, inspiring resistance forces around the country to attack. (The Kokang online media via AP)

Myanmar’s military is losing ground against coordinated nationwide attacks, buoying opposition hopes

By David Rising - Associated Press

Former Myanmar colonel who once served as information minister gets 10-year prison term for sedition

By Grant Peck - Associated Press

Members of the Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army pose for a photograph with the weapons allegedly seized from the Myanmar's army outpost on a hill in Chinshwehaw town, Myanmar, Saturday Oct. 28, 2023. The leader of Myanmar’s army-installed government said the military will carry out counter-attacks against a powerful alliance of ethnic armed groups that has seized towns near the Chinese border in the country’s northeastern and northern regions, state-run media reported Friday Nov. 3, 2023. ("The Kokang" online media via AP)

Myanmar army faces a new threat from armed ethnic foes who open a new front in a western state

By Grant Peck - Associated Press

Myanmar new appointed Home Affair Minister Soe Htut attends a ceremony to mark the Myanmar's 73rd anniversary of Union Day in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, on Feb. 12, 2020. A military court in Myanmar has sentenced Lt. Gen. Soe Htut who until recently was a senior member of the country’s ruling junta to five years in prison for abusing his authority and taking bribes, state-run media reported Saturday, Nov. 11, 2023. (AP Photo/Aung Shine Oo, File)

Myanmar military court sentences general ousted from ruling council to 5 years for corruption

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In this photo released from the The Military True News Information Team on Nov.8, 2023, Myint Swe, center, acting President of the military government, speaks during a meeting with members the National Defense and Security Council including Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing, center left, chairman of State Administration Council, and Vice President Henry Van Thio, center right, in Naypyitaw, Myanmar. (The Military True News Information Team via AP)

Myanmar’s military chief says a major offensive by ethnic groups was funded by the drug trade

By Grant Peck - Associated Press

In this photo released from the The Military True News Information Team on Nov. 6, 2023, Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing, center, leader of ruling military council, attends together with Russian Navy Commander-in-chief Admiral Nikolai Yevmenov, center right, during opening ceremony of first Myanmar Russia Maritime Security Exercise at Thilawa port in Yangon, Myanmar. (The Military True News Information Team via AP)

Military-ruled Myanmar hosts joint naval exercise with Russia, its close ally and top arms supplier

By Grant Peck - Associated Press

Members of the Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army hold the group's flag as they pose for a photograph on a captured army armored vehicle in Myanmar, Saturday Oct. 28, 2023. The leader of Myanmar’s army-installed government said the military will carry out counter-attacks against a powerful alliance of ethnic armed groups that has seized towns near the Chinese border in the country’s northeastern and northern regions, state-run media reported Friday Nov. 3, 2023. ("The Kokang" online media via AP)

Myanmar resistance claims first capture of a district capital from the military government

By Grant Peck - Associated Press

Members of the Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army hold the group's flag as they pose for a photograph on a captured army armored vehicle in Myanmar, Saturday Oct. 28, 2023. The leader of Myanmar’s army-installed government said the military will carry out counter-attacks against a powerful alliance of ethnic armed groups that has seized towns near the Chinese border in the country’s northeastern and northern regions, state-run media reported Friday Nov. 3, 2023. ("The Kokang" online media via AP)

Myanmar’s army chief vows counterattacks on armed groups that captured northeastern border towns

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