Attacks by the group, the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army, were used as a pretext by the Myanmar military to launch a campaign ...

Myanmar’s military government did not immediately comment. Maungdaw, about 400 kilometers (250 miles) southwest of Mandalay, Myanmar’s second-largest city, has been the target of an Arakan ...

The Arakan Army must now consolidate its unprecedented territorial gains in Rakhine State and contend with humanitarian, intercommunal and international challenges.

Members of Rohingya separatist groups in Bangladesh have killed, abducted, tortured, and threatened Rohingya refugees from Myanmar in acts that may amount to war crimes, Fortify Rights said in a new ...

Everyone was scared because we have never left Maungdaw, so did not know what to expect in Bangladesh. We crossed the river to Bangladesh by boat. We paid the owner 20,000 Myanmar Kyat ($15 ...

Myanmar’s military rulers will release 5,864 ... stretch of the border with Bangladesh when it captured the town of Maungdaw.

Myanmar's junta is pushing back with a new ... The focus has since shifted from Buthidaung to the neighboring township of Maungdaw, also home to a large population of Rohingya.

They fled to Maungdaw, where they spent the night ... With the calmer waters between monsoon seasons and the situation in Myanmar continuing to deteriorate, more Rohingya are expected to risk such ...

Northern Arakan, consisting of contemporary Maungdaw and Buthidaung townships, has since the late eighteenth century been a region of intermittent unrest and refugee flows. Thousands of Rohingya ...

BANGKOK (AP) — One of the most powerful ethnic minority armed groups battling Myanmar’s army has claimed the capture of the last army outpost in the strategic western town of Maungdaw ...