Clashes Intensify Along Myanmar’s Kachin-Sagaing Border, Blocking Key Highway
Fighting between a resistance coalition led by the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) and Myanmar’s military junta has escalated across four townships along the Kachin State–Sagaing Region border, shutting down the vital Man
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