Amid border conflict with Myanmar and a trade war with the US, Beijing’s heavy rare earth restrictions are having a global ...

Regime forces, reinforced by a flotilla from Mandalay, have reoccupied a battalion headquarters that fell to the Kachin ...

The US announced on July 24 that it was lifting sanctions against several allies of Myanmar's ruling military junta and their ...

Victims had been attending an event organized by the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) to mark the 62nd anniversary of the armed ethnic rebel group’s political wing, the Kachin Independence ...

By Trevor Hunnicutt, David Brunnstrom, Devjyot Ghoshal and Poppy McPherson WASHINGTON/BANGKOK (Reuters) -The Trump ...

In this Nov. 30, 2016 photo, a Kachin Independence Army (KIA) soldier sits inside the bomb shelter along the bunker at the front line of Alen Bum near Laiza, the headquarters of KIA in Kachin ...

An official with the Kachin Independence Army says government forces stopped attacks Saturday, Jan. 19, 2013 around an army base at Lajayang, just south of the rebel-held town of Laiza.

A spokesperson for the Kachin Independence Army said the group launched assaults against outposts controlled by the army and army-affiliated militia in several townships and near Laiza, a town on ...

The Kachin Independence Army is one of the stronger ethnic armed groups, capable of manufacturing some of their own weapons, and whose fighters are battle-hardened from years of resistance.

Burmese state television, quoting the Defense Ministry, said the military on Sunday occupied a Kachin Independence Army hilltop post during a mopping-up operation of the area where attacks had ...

On a lonely mountaintop, at the front lines of the Kachin Independence Army (KIA), Third Brigade, a small group of soldiers, smoking cheroots and drinking homemade rice alcohol, take cover from ...

Col. Naw Bu, a spokesman for the Kachin Independence Organization (KIO), told CNN 62 people had been killed in the airstrikes and 60 people remain injured.