The UNDP is warning of an "unprecedented disaster" for the people of Rakhine, as fighting between the Arakan Army and the Myanmar military drags on. Rohingya interviewees in Rakhine State can be ...

There are even reports that the Arakan Army now commands areas inside Bangladesh. In the ferocious civil war between ethnic rebel groups and the junta (military) in Myanmar, the Arakan Army ...

Rohingya youth who were conscripted by the military to defend Buthidaung town against the advancing Arakan Army share their stories with The Diplomat. Rohingya interviewees in Rakhine State can be ...

Myanmar's Arakan army challenges junta government: Is a new country going to emerge near India's... Naypyidaw: Myanmar has been in turmoil since the 2021 military coup that ousted the country’s ...

Video by the insurgent Arakan Army (AA) which was besieging the base shows their rag-tag fighters, many barefoot, firing an assortment of weapons into the base, while air force jets roar over ...

Home Advisor Jahangir Alam Chowdhury has said the entire 271-kilometre border of Myanmar with Bangladesh is under the control of the Arakan Army. “As a result, Bangladesh has to communicate with ...

After six months, the township of Maungdaw has fallen to the AA, while fighting continues in the south of the state. The ethnic Buddhist militia seems set to establish its own state and many fear ...

The capture by the Arakan Army makes the group’s control of the northern part of Rakhine state complete, and marks another advance in its bid for self-rule there. Rakhine has become a focal ...