Stay updated with breaking news from Border Guard Forces. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.
Two battalions, commanded by Major Saw Chit Chit, the son of Colonel Saw Chit Thu, the Secretary General of the Border Guard Forces (BGF), along with a battalion from the Military Council, are currently engaged in a robust offensive operation aimed at retaking Letkhattaung Pagoda Hill near Myawaddy Township in Karen State, according to resistance forces.
Most of the minerals are exported to neighboring China.
The Military Council recaptured the outposts of Border Guard Forces (BGF) Battalion No. 1004 in the Pantain area of Mese Township and BGF Battalion No. 1005 in the Sukpaing area of Ywarthit Township. Previously, the joint forces of the Karenni resistance conducted a raid and successfully occupied these two BGF outposts within Karenni State. Accompanied by photo footage as
A violent civil war between the China-backed military junta ruling Myanmar and a patchwork of pro-democracy rebels in the Southeast Asian nation is not getting much attention in the West, but is increasingly viewed by China's leadership as a strategic "Cold War" frontline in its global competition with the United States.
In the fractured authority surrounding crime-group controlled enclaves on the Moei River separating Thailand and Myanmar, this is what a crackdown on armed gangsters looks like: China presses Myanmar’s military junta — a sometimes client of Beijing — to make Thailand cut electric power to a large gambling and fraud hub run by Chinese crime syndicates across the river in Myanmar. The military-supervised Border Guard Force in the area, a partner of the syndicates, responds with threats to shut down cross-border trade. Then, giant generators appear in the enclave, deployed by the border gua...