Powerful ethnic armed group in western Myanmar claims capture of base, hundreds of soldiers
Voice of America
FILE - Arakan Army recruits scale climbing ropes at their Laiza, Kachin state, base camp.
A powerful ethnic minority armed group battling Myanmar's army in the country's west claimed Monday to have taken hundreds of government soldiers prisoner when it captured a major command post.
Monica Johnston, a burn and wound care nurse from the U.S. city of Portland, Oregon, with the Palestinian American Medical Association, monitors a patient who sustained major burns on May 8, 2024, in Khan Younis, Gaza. Dr. Ammar Ghanem of Detroit, volunteering with the Syrian American Medical Society, second from right, is pictured May 7, 2024, in Khan Younis, Gaza, with other doctors at the European General Hospital, where they had been since early May.
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