The mountainous town of Hpakant in the Kachin state is home to the ... them as they were digging for jade. The landscape in this part of Myanmar is scarred with hundreds of unregulated mines.

Will ethnic armies build on their success and work with Bamar groups to remove the Myanmar military from power, or stay ...

BANGKOK (AP) — A powerful rebel group has seized a key trading town in northeastern Myanmar on the Chinese ... including the KIA in the northern state of Kachin. In Kachin’s so-called Special ...

BANGKOK--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 ...

A Myanmar junta air strike killed at least 15 civilians and wounded 10 others at a market in a gold-mining area in northern Kachin state, a spokesman for an ethnic rebel group that controls the area ...