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.

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It was still dark, early on a 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 ...

DHAKA, March 20 (Reuters) - Dozens of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh gathered to pray for the early release of a Rohingya insurgent leader arrested this week on charges of murder, illegal entry ...

Since taking office in August 2024, Bangladesh's interim government has sought to mobilise international support for a solution to the Rohingya crisis. In November 2024, the interim government's ...

The leader of an armed group representing a persecuted Muslim minority from Myanmar was arrested in a raid in neighbouring Bangladesh this week and charged under an anti-terrorism law. Ataullah, an ...

COX’S BAZAR, Bangladesh — The U.S. government has confirmed it would provide $73 million in new financial aid for Rohingya refugees through the United Nations’ food agency, easing worries ...