Dozens of people were killed in an air strike by Myanmar's military government in the western state of Rakhine this week, the United Nations said, as the Southeast Asia nation's civil war nears its fourth year.

A Myanmar junta air strike has killed no fewer than 15 civilians and wounded 10 others at a market in a gold-mining area in northern Kachin state. DAILY POST reports that the junta has been accused of carrying out multiple attacks on civilian targets as it struggles to quell resistance to its 2021 coup.

An airstrike by Myanmar’s army on a village under the control of an armed ethnic minority group has killed about 40 people and injured at least 20 others, officials of the group and a local charity say.

An airstrike by Myanmar's army on a village under the control of an armed ethnic minority group killed about 40 people and injured at least 20 others, officials of the group and a local charity said Thursday.