The Arakan Army, a prominent and powerful ethnic rebel group combating Burma's military junta, claims it has taken hundreds of soldiers prisoner after seizing Operational Command No. 15 ...

Since December 2024, the Arakan Army (AA) has been entrenching itself in the Rakhine state after the fall of the Western ...

Additionally, the rebel group Arakan Army, which is fighting the military in Myanmar, is forcibly recruiting Rohingya men and boys, and both sides fighting the war are using the youths as human ...

It shows Arakan Army fighters guarding men in military uniforms and civilian clothes, some injured, as they walk through a field and down a roadside accompanied by women and children — families ...

Renewed hostilities between the Myanmar military and ethnic minority armed group the Arakan Army (AA) have spread to various townships in western Myanmar, including Pauktaw, where civilians have ...

On Jan. 18, the Myanmar army classified the Arakan Army as a terrorist organization. At a news conference , military officers said Suu Kyi ordered them to launch an offensive against the group.

Seven years after massacring thousands of Rohingya, Myanmar's military has conscripted at least 100 men from Rakhine State to fight against the Arakan Army insurgent group, the BBC reports.

In 2017, ethnic Rakhine men joined in the army's attacks on the Rohingyas. ... The mood has now changed. A spokesman for the Arakan Army, Khaing Thukha, ...

The Arakan Army corralled the survivors and detained about 80 men, including Dawood, whom they accused of being former Myanmar soldiers. He was able to escape, hiding in the forest before making ...

He further revealed that the Arakan Army has approximately 50 of the MANPADS (Man-Portable Air Defense Systems) surface-to-air missiles. "An object lesson in diplo-terrorism is the leverage over ...

The two largest Rohingya militant groups - the Rohingya Solidarity Organisation (RSO) and the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) - do not appear to have mass support in the camps in Cox's Bazar ...