{"id":68435,"date":"2024-12-21T16:26:28","date_gmt":"2024-12-21T07:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/dec\/21\/myanmar-rebels-claims-control-over-major-western-military-headquarters"},"modified":"2024-12-21T16:26:28","modified_gmt":"2024-12-21T07:26:28","slug":"myanmar-rebels-claims-control-over-major-western-military-headquarters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=68435","title":{"rendered":"Myanmar rebels claims= control over major western military headquarters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The regional command at Ann would be the second regional military command to fall to ethnic rebels in five months, and a huge blow to the military<\/p>\n<p>A rebel army in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/myanmar\">Myanmar<\/a> said it had captured a major military headquarters in the country\u2019s west, marking the fall of the junta\u2019s second regional command as it faces mounting setbacks against a nationwide armed resistance movement.<\/p>\n<p>The Arakan Army (AA) said the western military command in Rakhine state, which borders Bangladesh, fell on Friday after two weeks of intense fighting, according to a statement posted on Telegram late on Friday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/dec\/21\/myanmar-rebels-claims-control-over-major-western-military-headquarters\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The regional command at Ann would be the second regional military command to fall to ethnic rebels in five months, and a huge blow to the militaryA rebel army in Myanmar said it had captured a major military headquarters in the country\u2019s west, marking &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[82,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-myanmar","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68435"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68436,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68435\/revisions\/68436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}