Myanmar’s junta loses first regional command base since 2021 coup

FILE - Army officers stand guard as police officers patrol in Lashio, Myanmar, on May 29, 2013. The country's military regime lost Lashio, the location of its northeast regional command center, on Aug. 3, 2024, to armed resistance groups.

Armed groups in Myanmar fighting the country’s military regime are making major, even “historic,” gains in the northeast since the breakdown of a cease-fire in June, experts tell VOA, setting up a possible push toward Mandalay, the country’s second-largest city.