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Myanmar’s regime retook its artillery battalion in Bhamo, Kachin State, on Tuesday, five days after the arrival of a reinforcement flotilla, Kachin Independence Army (KIA) spokesman Colonel Naw Bu told The Irrawaddy. (confirmed by 2 sources) [1]

The Kachin Independence Army (KIA) seized several frontline camps from the junta’s military in Bhamo and Waingmaw townships in Kachin State on Thursday, KIA spokesperson Colonel Naw Bu said. [2]

Junta jets launched airstrikes four times in February in Myanmar’s northernmost township of Putao in Kachin State, where clashes between regime troops and the combined forces of the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) and local People’s Defense Forces (PD... [3]

One of Myanmar’s major ethnic armed resistance groups, the Kachin Independence Army (KIA), and local People’s Defense Forces in Kachin State’s Putao, Mohnyin and Hpakant attacked at least five junta military bases and a police station this week, show... [4]

YANGON — A tribunal of the Kachin Independence Organization (KIO) sentenced a poppy grower to death and another to seven years in jail for fatally shooting a member of an ethnic Kachin movement against opium. [5]

Local residents in Kachin State’s Hukawng Valley have reportedly taken back land which a crony close to Myanmar’s military confiscated from them some 15 years ago. [6]

Clashes have broken out in several areas in Kachin State between members of the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) and the Burma Army along the highway connecting Mogaung and Hpakant townships. [7]

KIO/A Won’t Allow Polling In Its Area The Kachin Independence Organization/Army (KIO/A) won’t allow polling to occur in its areas during the national election. The ethnic armed organization (EAO) said [8]

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[1] MM www.irrawaddy.com · 2025-08-08 · 75% match

Myanmar Junta Retakes Bhamo Battalion HQ

Myanmar’s regime retook its artillery battalion in Bhamo, Kachin State, on Tuesday, five days after the arrival of a reinforcement flotilla, Kachin Independence Army (KIA) spokesman Colonel Naw Bu told The Irrawaddy.

[2] MM www.irrawaddy.com · 2025-10-09 · 75% match

KIA Seizes Camps From Myanmar Military in Bhamo, Waingmaw

The Kachin Independence Army (KIA) seized several frontline camps from the junta’s military in Bhamo and Waingmaw townships in Kachin State on Thursday, KIA spokesperson Colonel Naw Bu said.

[3] MM www.irrawaddy.com · 2022-03-02 · 75% match

Junta Jets Bomb Villages as Fighting in Northern Myanmar Intensifies

Junta jets launched airstrikes four times in February in Myanmar’s northernmost township of Putao in Kachin State, where clashes between regime troops and the combined forces of the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) and local People’s Defense Forces (PD

[4] MM www.irrawaddy.com · 2022-02-03 · 75% match

Kachin Independence Army, PDFs Attack Myanmar Junta Bases in Kachin State

One of Myanmar’s major ethnic armed resistance groups, the Kachin Independence Army (KIA), and local People’s Defense Forces in Kachin State’s Putao, Mohnyin and Hpakant attacked at least five junta military bases and a police station this week, show

[5] MM www.irrawaddy.com · 2017-06-15 · 75% match

KIO Sentences Poppy Grower to Death for Killing Anti-drug Activist

YANGON — A tribunal of the Kachin Independence Organization (KIO) sentenced a poppy grower to death and another to seven years in jail for fatally shooting a member of an ethnic Kachin movement against opium.

[6] MM www.irrawaddy.com · 2021-04-09 · 75% match

Kachin State Land Confiscated by Myanmar Military Crony Taken Back by Local Farmers

Local residents in Kachin State’s Hukawng Valley have reportedly taken back land which a crony close to Myanmar’s military confiscated from them some 15 years ago.

[7] MM www.irrawaddy.com · 2016-08-09 · 75% match

Police Injuries and Burma Army Casualties Reported After Clashes With KIA

Clashes have broken out in several areas in Kachin State between members of the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) and the Burma Army along the highway connecting Mogaung and Hpakant townships.

[8] MM kachinnews.com · 2020-08-13 · 75% match

KIO/A Won’t Allow Polling In Its Area

KIO/A Won’t Allow Polling In Its Area The Kachin Independence Organization/Army (KIO/A) won’t allow polling to occur in its areas during the national election. The ethnic armed organization (EAO) said

[9] MM www.irrawaddy.com · 2019-01-14 · 75% match

Chinese Envoy Urges Northern Alliance Leaders to Talk Peace

Chinese Special Envoy for Asian Affairs Sun Guoxiang visited the Kachin Independence Organization’s headquarters in Laiza last week, where he met with leaders of the Northern Alliance.

[10] MM www.irrawaddy.com · 2021-05-07 · 75% match

Myanmar Military Takes Heavy Casualties in Kachin State Fighting

The Myanmar military has reportedly suffered further heavy casualties during fierce clashes with the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) in multiple locations across Kachin State on Thursday.

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