As per sources, Pakistan’s spy agency Inter-Services Intelligence was engaged in the spadework to convince the Rohingya armed ...

This indicates it may only be a matter of time before both domestic and foreign stakeholders engage with the new reality in Arakan. Whether Bangladesh will establish a relationship with the AA ...

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 ...

For the Muslim Rohingya minority, who were previously denied basic rights and faced systematic repression under the Tatmadaw, the situation remains precarious. The Arakan Army has previously ...

“We are being slaughtered. They [military and Arakan Army] hate us,” he says. Mohammed is among tens of thousands of Rohingya who have been forced from their homes in Myanmar over the last ...

Last year alone, according to one source, armed groups such as the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA), the Rohingya Solidarity Organization (RSO), and the Arakan Army (AA) recruited an ...

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 ...

With the civil war in Myanmar growing ever more complex, various religious groups in the country are being caught between warring factions who seek to exploit ethnic divisions to further their own ...

This latest round of fighting between the military and the Arakan Army, which began in late 2023 following Operation1027 has been fierce. Dozens of Rohingya civilians were killed during junta ...

They clung on through years of conflict in Myanmar but a surge of fighting has driven tens of thousands more Rohingya to flee, escaping with little more than harrowing tales of war. "I saw ...

Rakhine, formerly known as Arakan, was the site of a brutal army counterinsurgency operation in 2017 that drove about 740,000 minority Rohingya Muslims to seek safety across the border in Bangladesh.