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

Rodehaver said the Arakan Army used burning sticks doused in petrol that were flung to start and spread blazes. Similar tactics were used against the Rohingya in 2017, Reuters previously reported.

Recent international think‑tank briefings now echo the same details first exclusively reported here in this journal in ...

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 ...

Soldiers have been fighting the Arakan Army/AA rebels in the area since mid-2019 and periods of active combat have been increasingly common in the last few months. Not a lot of casualties but enough ...

‘Arakan Army man’ held in Rangamati. Law enforcers arrest a suspected member of Arakan Army, an insurgent outfit of Myanmar, in Rajasthali upazila of Rangamati. October 5, 2015 ...

The Arakan Army, seeking autonomy from the junta, ... My husband was sick and bedridden – he couldn’t run. A man in uniform shot him in the abdomen,” Bahar said.

The Arakan Army (AA), ... A Rohingya man said, "Our situation today is even more difficult than it was under the rule of the military junta." Follow bdnews24.com on Google News.

Since November last year, the Arakan Army has gained control of 11 of Rakhine’s 17 townships, along with one in neighboring Chin state. Ann, a town in Rakhine that hosts the strategically important ...

This handout photo provided by the Arakan Army shows people looking at flames rising after an airstrike by the ruling military in Kyauk Ni Maw village, in Ramree township, also pronounced Yanbye ...

The AA and their ally the KIA/Kachin Independence Army have joined forces to recruit and train local men to resist the army. Together the two rebel groups have over 10,000 armed men. In nearby Shan ...