Since resuming assaults in Bhamo last week, the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) and its allies appear close to taking over a ...

Kachin Independence Army and allied forces also have an artillery unit surrounded amid clashes and junta airstrikes in Bhamo, almost all of whose residents have fled.

PDF, KIA and allied forces attacked junta troops who have been holed up in a monastery in the Sagaing Region town for months with hundreds of civilian ‘human shields’.