Thomas van Linge

I have just come back Myanmar 🇲🇲 where I spent two weeks traveling around the resistance-held territories of the Sagaing region. Its a remote region which no other foreign press has managed to visit since the start of the war five years ago. I'll share some impressions below 🧵

What is striking to see is how widespread the support for this resistance is across this region. Almost every village, even the ones of only a couple dozen people, have memorials like this, dedicated to local men (and sometimes women) who died in the ranks of the PDF resistance.

I have just come back Myanmar 🇲🇲 where I spent two weeks traveling around the resistance-held territories of the Sagaing region. Its a remote region which no other foreign press has managed to visit since the start of the war five years ago. I'll share some impressions below 🧵

Across resistance-held areas people have had to dig bomb shelters in their backyards. Holes in the ground often covered up with nothing more than some logs, thin plates & sand. It's illustrative of a people abandoned by the world, having to resort to only themselves for survival

I have just come back Myanmar 🇲🇲 where I spent two weeks traveling around the resistance-held territories of the Sagaing region. Its a remote region which no other foreign press has managed to visit since the start of the war five years ago. I'll share some impressions below 🧵

A bell on the school ground serves as the alarm system. The students all know its sound very well.

I have just come back Myanmar 🇲🇲 where I spent two weeks traveling around the resistance-held territories of the Sagaing region. Its a remote region which no other foreign press has managed to visit since the start of the war five years ago. I'll share some impressions below 🧵

Schools are also at risk. Anything that resembles normal life is a target of this regime and could be destroyed. The schools we visited were also in undisclosed location, hoping the secrecy will protect the children. But even here their safety is never guaranteed.

I have just come back Myanmar 🇲🇲 where I spent two weeks traveling around the resistance-held territories of the Sagaing region. Its a remote region which no other foreign press has managed to visit since the start of the war five years ago. I'll share some impressions below 🧵

What I found especially shocking was the obvious and deliberate targeting of hospitals in resistance-held territories. I visisted a number of facilities, and all had been bombed out of service by the junta. All the deny people living here any kind of medical care.

I have just come back Myanmar 🇲🇲 where I spent two weeks traveling around the resistance-held territories of the Sagaing region. Its a remote region which no other foreign press has managed to visit since the start of the war five years ago. I'll share some impressions below 🧵

The junta had apparently been operation under the false intelligence that there was an underground fiel hospital beneath the village. Nine people died in this raid alone. All the survivors left afterwards

I have just come back Myanmar 🇲🇲 where I spent two weeks traveling around the resistance-held territories of the Sagaing region. Its a remote region which no other foreign press has managed to visit since the start of the war five years ago. I'll share some impressions below 🧵

The pattern which was established in Sagaing is now being repeated all over the country: While the junta holds on to large towns, the PDF resistance dominates all the countryside, and more and more key roads This has basically reduced regime control to a skeleton of what is was

I have just come back Myanmar 🇲🇲 where I spent two weeks traveling around the resistance-held territories of the Sagaing region. Its a remote region which no other foreign press has managed to visit since the start of the war five years ago. I'll share some impressions below 🧵

Sudan 🇸🇩 MAP UPDATE: the situation in Sudan as of 01/10/2025. -This past month the SAF achieved some critical victories in northern Kordofan, seizing control of Bara and pushing the RSF further away from the city of El Obeid. But the RSF assault on El Fasher has only intensified

Sahel 🇲🇱🇧🇫🇳🇪 MAP: The situation in the Sahel states of Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger and Benin as of September 2025. This map is a joint production by @warmapper.org and myself

In Burkina Faso 🇧🇫 the. junta controls less then 50% of the country, with JNIM and IS advancing on Ouagadougou from the west, north and east In Niger 🇳🇪: IS and JNIM are becoming more aggressive, mass attacks in which dozens of Nigerien soldiers are killed take place more often.

Sahel 🇲🇱🇧🇫🇳🇪 MAP: The situation in the Sahel states of Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger and Benin as of September 2025. This map is a joint production by @warmapper.org and myself

The security situation in the Sahel has been bad for years and was complicated further with the string of military coups in 🇲🇱🇧🇫🇳🇪. But the situation has alarmingly worsened in recent weeks.

#Sudan 🇸🇩 MAP UPDATE: the situation in Sudan as of 01/06/2025. This past month was marked by a series of attempts by the #SAF to advance into south and west Kordofan. Attempt which initially seemed succesful but were later reversed by the #RSF, showing the war is still very far from being decided.

#Myanmar 🇲🇲 MAP UPDATE: the situation in Myanmar as of 01/06/2025. The past month was marked by a series of modest advances by the resistance. A number of junta camps were seized in the states of Karen, Bago, and further in the south. The resistance controls between 60-65% of the country.

#Myanmar 🇲🇲 MAP UPDATE: the situation in Myanmar as of 01/05/2025. As the dry season comes to a close resistance forces are stepping up their attacks across the country. Meanwhile the junta keeps bombing dozens of villages despite earlier promises of a ceasefire.

#Sudan 🇸🇩 MAP UPDATE: the situation in Sudan as of 01/05/2025. As the SAF continues to advance in the city of Omdurman, the RSF is consolidating its control over Darfur and western Kordofan. Today the town of En-Nahud was seized, as the militants are stepping up their attacks on el-Fasher.

Made it to the colorful city of #Suwayda in the south of #Syria. The torch that carried anti-Assad protests in 2023-24, but now finds itself at odds with the new government over regional governance, Druze representation and worries about extremist factions.

Some pictures from around Dignity Square in the center of #Suwayda. The square that was the beating heart of regional protests against the #Assad regime.