Myanmar troops retreat as rebels declare control over key border town

Myanmar’s Myawaddy town from the Thai side. Myanmar junta troops have withdrawn from their positions in the town. Photograph: Manan Vatsyayana/AFP via Getty Images

About 200 Myanmar military personnel withdrew to a bridge to Thailand on Thursday 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.…

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