The Karen National Union said that its forces were pulling back from the important border hub to avoid harm to the local population.

The Karen National Union said that its forces were pulling back from the important border hub to avoid harm to the local population. Westerners have varying images of Southeast Asia. Few of them ...

The soldiers came from the army’s Infantry Battalion 275, whose base, about 4 kilometers (3 miles) to the west of Myawaddy, was captured on April 11 by the armed wing of the Karen National Uni ...

Soldiers from the Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA) on patrol in Myawaddy, the Thailand-Myanmar border town under the control of a coalition of rebel forces led by the Karen National Union ...

Fighting around Myawaddy has been ongoing for days. Since April 5, the Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA) – the KNU’s military’s wing – and its allies have seized military outposts and ...

Last week, fighters from the Karen National Union (KNU), the ethnic armed organization leading the offensive on Myawaddy, seized the last of the Myanmar army's outposts in and around the border ...

30. It had a similar theme as protesters urged the military to withdraw soldiers, close an army base and suspend military construction work. The protests came nearly a month after renewed clashes ...

Karen Ordahl Kupperman was born on April 23, 1939, in Devils Lake, North Dakota, of Swedish and Norwegian ancestry. Her mother was principally a homemaker; her father was a colonel in the United ...