Karen News

The river water has flooded about nine central wards of Hpa-An City and about 20 nearby villages in Hpa-An Township leading to evacuations, according to local relief groups. Local aid groups and relevant departments of the junta administration have helped around 30,000 flood affected residents by establishing 22 temporary camps where people displaced by flooding can shelter, according to reports…

The arson attacks began on the 22nd of this month (July), according to a frontline news source who spoke to the Kantarawaddy Times. “Yes, there have been houses set on fire. They (the junta troops) have reached Phayarni. And they have been burning houses in and around Noe Koe,” said the source. Even though no clashes occurred around the Noe…

In early May 2025, following fighting with resistance forces to the east of the Sittaung River in Taungoo Township, the junta burned down several villages, including including Kyauklonegyi, Letpaekone, Saparkywei, and Tawpu, causing thousands of residents to flee and seek shelter in an IDP camp on the west side of the Sittaung River, just outside Taungoo City. Later, on 23…

The 21 July 2025 report by the Institute of Strategy and Policy – Myanmar (ISP-Myanmar) estimated that, as of 15 July 2025, the KNU controls approximately 800 km (497 miles), or about a third, of the approximately 2,416 km (1,501 miles) long border with Thailand. The report said that since the February 2021 coup the KNU has been “increasingly focused…

On 3 July 2025, the Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA) and its allies launched an offensive against Wawlay TOC, which is in Myawaddy’s Township’s Wawlay Town, on the border with Thailand,. Since then residents of Wawlay Town and the surrounding areas have been fleeing across the Wa Le River into Thailand. Currently about 1,000 of them are sheltering in Thailand.…

18 of the women were killed by airstrikes, 11 were killed by artillery fire, two by gunfire, two by landmines and one was arbitrarily killed. Four of the killed were minors under the age of 18. Of the 34 killed women, seven were killed in Sagaing Region; five each were killed in Mandalay Region, Shan State, and Karen State; four…

On 8 July 2025, a column of junta soldiers from Light Infantry Battalion (LIB) 545 based in Kyondoe Town and another column from the Military Operations Command 12 (MOC 12) base near to Kawkareik Town simultaneously began advancing along the section of highway towards each other under the cover of heavy artillery fire. A frontline resistance force said: “Since around…

On 14 June the column of about 80 junta soldiers started moving through the villages south of Launglon Town. After about a week they stationed themselves in Kanyonkyun Village. 40 to 50 villagers, many of whom were elderly, who had not managed to flee in advance of the junta column remained in the village. The junta soldiers forced the residents…

In recent months there had been fighting between the junta and resistance forces at the Letkattaung military base near Launglon Town. Following the fighting, the junta dispatched a column of about 80 soldiers from the Tanintharyi Region capital, Dawei City, to Launglon Township. Then, on 14 June 2025, the junta column started moving through the villages south of Launglon Town,…

On 15 June 2025, the junta convoy was travelling towards Leiktho along the road from Taungoo City in Bago Region to Leiktho Town in Karen State when they reached Ahlelchaung (lower) Village, not far from Leiktho Town. There, the soldiers set fire to two houses at a road intersection. Junta soldiers based in Ahlelchaung (lower) Village and the Leiktho Town-based…