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UNITED NATIONS (AP) — U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres appointed former Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop on Friday as his special envoy for Myanmar, a post that has been vacant for 10 months as the country’s conflict escalated into the worst violence since the military takeover in 2021.
Anti-junta forces in Myanmar attempted coordinated drone attacks on military facilities in its capital on Thursday (April 4), army TV and a parallel government said, in a brazen challenge to a military struggling to govern and fighting battles on multiple fronts.
BANGKOK/YANGON -- Myanmar's anti-military armed forces staged drone attacks on military facilities in Naypyitaw on Thursday, highlighting that the frontline of resistance groups is closing in on the Myanmar capital.
BANGKOK/YANGON -- Younger adults in Myanmar are streaming out of the country as the military sends draft notices in select regions under a conscription law recently put into effect to combat ethnic and anti-regime forces fighting the regime.
Thirteen fixed-wing drones were shot down over the capital of military-ruled Myanmar on Thursday (April 4), in a foiled attack by "terrorists" seeking to destroy important locations in the city, military-run Myawaddy TV reported.
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Myanmar’s escalating conflict and worst violence since the military takeover in 2021 are having a devastating impact on human rights, fundamental freedoms and basic needs of millions of people — as well as “alarming spillover effects” in the region, U.N. officials said Thursday.
GENEVA (AP) — The U.N.'s leading human rights body agreed Thursday to measures aimed at putting pressure on Myanmar and Iran, whose governments have been accused of using violence against their own people.
BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar’s main pro-democracy resistance group said Thursday its armed wing launched drone attacks on the airport and a military headquarters in the capital, Naypyitaw, but the country’s ruling military said it destroyed the drones as they attacked.