Myanmar troops retreat to Thai border bridge after days of fighting

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MYAWADDY – About 200 Myanmar military personnel withdrew to a bridge to Thailand on April 11 after a days-long assault by the anti-junta resistance, which declared it had won control of the critical border town of Myawaddy, the latest in a string of rebel wins. Myanmar’s military-run government is battling insurgencies on several fronts and has suffered a series of defeats in frontier areas, since October 2023, when rebel groups launched a coordinated offensive near the Chinese border. The impoverished Southeast Asian nation has been in turmoil after the military deposed an elected civilian government in a 2021 coup, sparking...