Myanmar junta air strike kills 12 in rebel-held town, worsening hunger crisis in Rakhine State civil war.
A Myanmar junta air strike on a rebel-held town in the country's hunger-ravaged west killed at least 12 people, witnesses of the overnight bombing said on Tuesday (August 26, 2025).
Rakhine State has been blockaded by Myanmar's military as it battles ethnic fighters in a many-sided civil war that has consumed the country since the junta toppled the democratic government in a 2021 coup.
Conflict monitors say the junta has increased airstrikes year-on-year since the start of Myanmar’s civil war
The junta has stepped up bombardments by air in an attempt to reclaim territory from ethnic armies.
A Myanmar military air strike on a marketplace kills at least 17, escalating the ongoing civil conflict in Rakhine state.
Women and children among those killed in air strikes on a village market in Rakhine.
The air force of Myanmar's military junta killed at least 33 civilians and injured scores more after it bombed a hospital in…
The attack targets a 300-bed hospital in western Rakhine state as the government intensifies its offensive there.
