Myanmar’s civil war is unwinnable under the circumstances. Supporting Kachin independence could secure rare earth supplies, ...

Father Paul Lahpai Awng Dang, 46, grew up witnessing how violence overshadowed ethnic-majority Kachin state in northern Myanmar, just across from China’s Yunnan province.

Dozens of people have reportedly been killed in military airstrikes at a celebratory event in Myanmar’s mountainous Kachin state on Sunday, drawing international condemnation of the junta that ...

In Kachin state, which is over 90 percent Baptist and about 5 percent Catholic, the Tamadaw has burned 406 villages and 311 churches and displaced more than 130,000 people in the past seven years.

1 of 5 — Kachin Independence Army recruits train at a military base in Maijiayang, Kachin State, Myanmar. The KIA has around 8,000 soldiers and has been fighting the Burmese government for ...

Ethnic Kachin children at their school at the Nhkawng Pa Internally Displaced People's (IDP) camp in Moe Mauk township, near Laiza, Myanmar on Sept. 19, 2012. Soe Than Win—AFP/Getty Images ...

More than 10,000 people in northern Myanmar have fled fighting between government troops and an ethnic minority group's militia, and are living in temporary camps near the Chinese border as refu ...

A cold wind sweeps across the rocky hilltops of Myanmar’s Sha It Yang camp, where the Kachin Independence Organization says 5,000 of its internally displaced civilians have struggled to call ...

In this Nov. 30, 2016 photo, a Kachin Independence Army (KIA) soldier patrols at the front line through the bunkers of Alen Bum near Laiza, the headquarters of the KIA in Kachin State, Myanmar.

BANGKOK — Myanmar’s military has been accused of launching an airstrike on a camp for displaced persons in the northern state of Kachin that killed about 30 people, including about a dozen ...

A rebel group in Myanmar's northern state of Kachin says its troops have attacked more than 10 army outposts along the main road to the state capital ... known as the People’s Defense Force, ...

A displaced elderly Kachin woman rests in a temporary camp May 11 on the grounds of a Catholic church in Myitkyina, Myanmar. (Credit: Seng Mai/EPA via CNS.) Listen WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Tamadaw ...