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August 12 will mark the 75th anniversary of Karen Martyrs’ Day, and an airstrike warning was issued in Brigade 7 territory ahead of the day. On August 10, a junta Y-12 utility aircraft bombed areas around the Brigade 7 headquarters between 7:47 pm and 8:00 pm, dropping 20 bombs in six bombing rounds. “The aircraft circled the area, dropping a…

With international humanitarian aid cutoff, food supplies to refugee camps along the Thailand-Myanmar border have been suspended since early August. The financial support for health workers aims to restart stalled health services in these camps. The Tak Province Public Health Department, in collaboration with volunteer organizations and some hospitals, will provide 2,500 THB per month to each of the 80…

At around 9:00 pm on August 5, a landslide struck Ward 1 of Thandaung Town in Thandaunggyi Township, killing all four members of a family, including two children aged 4 and 9. Another landslide claimed the life of a local man in Ward 3 of Thandaung Town, while additional landslides near the Thaukyaekhat Stream in Thandaunggyi Township killed three more…

In July, clashes erupted between junta troops and resistance forces near an undisclosed village in Wai Htoo Village Tract. Following the fighting, junta troops entered the village and set homes on fire. According to an August 1 statement from the Karen Human Rights Group (KHRG), the arson attack destroyed 39 houses, leaving only 4 intact. The residents of the village…

In April, the Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA) and allied resistance groups seized control of the main highway between Kyondoe and Kawkareik towns. However, in the last week of July, the junta launched an offensive and regained control of that road section. During the clashes, many residents of Kyondoe Town took refuge as IDPs in Yoemahar and Kyarkalay villages in…

On July 29, junta leader Senior General Min Aung Hlaing promulgated the ‘Law on the Protection of Multiparty Democratic Elections from Obstruction, Disruption and Destruction,’ comprising 8 chapters and 32 sections. The Independent Press Council Myanmar (IPCM), representing media agencies and journalists in Myanmar, abroad, and in ethnic regions, has criticized the junta’s laws and restrictions as a growing threat…

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…