Described as the world’s most persecuted people, 1.1 million Rohingya people live in Myanmar. They live mostly in Rakhine state, where they have co-existed uneasily alongside Buddhists for decades.

Rohingya refugees run to the crew of the Nautical Aliya as they provide relief supplies at the Balu Khali Rohingya refugee camp on February 15, 2017 in Chittagong, Bangladesh. (Allison Joyce/Getty ...

The Rohingya people in Myanmar are trapped in a dehumanising system of state-sponsored discrimination and racial segregation. This is apartheid – a crime against humanity as defined by international ...

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BANGKOK--A powerful ethnic minority armed group battling Myanmar’s army in the country’s west claimed Monday to have taken hundreds of government soldiers prisoner when it captured a major ...

It was still dark on an early January morning in 2024 when Mohammad Ayas slipped out of the world’s largest refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, and trekked deep into the forest, returning to the ...

As violence and forced conscription of Rohingya youths continue in Myanmar, hopes for the safe return of refugees to their homeland are fading. Bangladesh has been taking in fellow Muslims from ...

Myanmar's junta is pushing back with a new tactic after sustaining heavy losses in the western state of Rakhine. Military forces have found themselves cornered by the Arakan Army, an ethnic ...

The United States has criticized Myanmar’s military for persecution and ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims. In a meeting with Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi in Singapore, U.S. Vice President Mike ...

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The United Nations Special Envoy of the Secretary-General on Myanmar, Julie Bishop, called Sunday for an early political settlement in Myanmar that would lead to the return of the Rohingya to ...