Headlines- According to the US Central Command, strikes against Iran were carried out for the seventh consecutive night.
- Iranian foeces targeted a Thai-flagged vessel that attempted to transit the Strait of Hormuz, according to the semi-official Tasnim news agency.
- The US attacked an Iranian oil tanker docked at Karg Island, deputy governor of Bushehr, Iran said.
- After what it described as an Iranian strike involving ballistic missiles and drones, Kuwait's military claimed on Friday that several of its ground forces injured and that both military and civilian facilities damaged.
- Iran said it attacked an American military base in eastern Syria on Friday.
Tag: Myanmar News
Junta Arrests Reporter, Celebrities Who Criticized...
Authorities in Myanmar have arrested a journalist and three celebrities who criticized the junta’s bombing of a village in Sagaing region that killed 200 people, including children, a source with knowledge of the country’s legal system said Friday.
Death Toll from Myanmar Junta Air...
The death toll from a military airstrike in northern Myanmar’s Sagaing region on civilians has nearly doubled to an estimated 200 people, a local member of the People’s Defense Forces told Radio Free Asia on Monday.
Death Toll in Myanmar Air Strike...
The number of people killed in an air strike seen as one of the worst attacks on civilians by Myanmar’s junta since a military coup two years ago has risen to 165, the country’s shadow government said Thursday.
Military Stymies Rescue Efforts at Scene...
Efforts by workers to rescue the injured and collect the remains of mangled bodies at the scene of a junta air strike that killed at least 80 civilians in Myanmar’s northern Sagaing region have been hampered by troops in the area, sources said Wednesday.
Anti-Junta Fighter Killed During Deportation from...
One of three Burmese armed resistance fighters who sought medical assistance in Thailand was killed as Thai authorities handed them over to junta authorities en route to Myanmar, Radio Free Asia has learned.
Myanmar Navy Arrests 130 Rohingya Attempting...
Nearly 130 Rohingya Muslims leaving Myanmar for Malaysia by boat were arrested by the junta’s navy in waters off Mon state on Sunday after brokers revealed information about them to local villagers.
Since Coup, Nearly 450 Civilians Killed...
Civilians are being killed at an alarming rate in Myanmar’s civil war, dying in airstrikes, artillery shelling and while being held in detention, data released from an armed ethnic group fighting the junta showed.
Once-Bustling Town of Thantlang Reduced to...
Western Myanmar’s once bustling town of Thantlang, with a sign above its gateway proclaiming that its inhabitants are “Not rich, but happy,” now lies in ruin after an onslaught of military raids, arson attacks, and airstrikes
Myanmar Junta Pledges 15 Villages for...
Myanmar’s junta is planning 15 new villages with 750 plots of farmable land in Rakhine state as part of a pilot program that would see 1,500 ethnic Rohingyas repatriated from refugee camps in neighboring Bangladesh next month.
Civilians in Northern Myanmar Face Growing...
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said in a report in April 2022 that at least 102 civilians were killed and 288 others injured by landmines and other explosive weapons in Myanmar since the coup.