Tatmadaw translates literally as “armed forces,” and is made up of the Army (Tatmadaw Kyi), Air Force (Tatmadaw Lay), and Navy (Tatmadaw Ye). In English we have used the term “Burma army ...

Starved of outside support, resistance groups have been forced to adopt low-cost solutions to battlefield challenges.

The Tatmadaw have lost several bases on the border to Thailand, where the Karen National Union (KNU) is gaining strength. Just a few weeks ago, Myawaddy, not far from here, came under siege ...

But until the launch of Operation 1027, eponymously named for its Oct. 27 start, the military, known as the Tatmadaw, had largely been able to prevent major losses around the country. Operation ...

Despite formulating a Five-Point Consensus in 2021, divisions within ASEAN continue to undermine its capacity to mount a unified approach to the crisis in Myanmar ...

If Myanmar's people drive Gen. Min Aung Hlaing and his brutal military regime from power, as they seem about to do, the first ...

Many Rohingya youths are becoming victims of exploitation and despair because of the unavailability of options to study and work and make a decent living A possible retaliation by Myanmar forces ...

When the Tatmadaw entered my village they killed men and beat women when they caught them. 1 Burmese soldiers came into Tho Mer Kee village and burnt down all the houses. They killed all our pigs ...

By Gwynne Dyer If the Burmese drive General Min Aung Hlaing and his brutal military regime from power, as they seem about to do, the first thing they should do afterwards is take a leaf from Costa ...

The Tatmadaw, as the army is known, got off on the wrong foot from the start. Under British rule, there was no Burmese army, but during the Second World War young Burmese nationalists sought ...

The coordinated attacks by the PDFs and the Ethnic Armed Organisations (EAOs) pushed the Myanmar military (Tatmadaw) to cede control over large parts of the country. In a futile attempt to regain ...