The Arakan Army strives for legitimacy in Rakhine State by governing captured areas but faces international recognition hurdles, Rohingya tensions and severe humanitarian crises.

In light of a new report, refugees in Bangladesh share harrowing tales of sexual assault, shootings by rebels and junta ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

“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 ...

A Myanmar rebel group said on Jan. 31 that its members killed two prisoners in a rare admission of deadly violence as it ...

The Arakan Army says that it has captured the last remaining junta base in Maungdaw Township, after six months of fighting. Rohingya youth who were conscripted by the military to defend Buthidaung ...

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 ...

Myanmar Hindu Union released a statement denouncing the ... But one is also reminded that the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army had in 2017 massacred some 99 Hindus in Rakhine state,” said Maj ...