About 5,000 internally displaced people have returned to the western Myanmar border town of Maungdaw after the insurgent ...

BANGKOK--One of the most powerful ethnic minority armed groups battling Myanmar’s army has claimed the capture of the last army outpost in the strategic western town of Maungdaw, gaining full ...

I was a farmer in a village just outside Maungdaw township. I grew up there and owned three acres of land which I cultivated to grow rice. The conflict was nowhere near our village, but the ...

The Rohingya crisis began in August 2017 when violence in Myanmar's Rakhine state forced nearly one million Rohingya Muslims ...

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 ...

The conflict in Myanmar and the seizure of Bangladeshi importer's cargo vessels by the Arakan Army have led to a deadlock at the Teknaf land port in Cox's Bazar, reducing ship arrivals from over 20 a ...

When AA forces -- ethnic guerrillas wanting their own territory -- seized Maungdaw district in early December, Hasina fled. A shell landed just outside her home killing her neighbours, including ...

On Sunday evening, a trawler loaded with 350 sacks of lentils set out from Maungdaw Township, Myanmar, for local trader Abdus Shukkur and reached the Teknaf jetty. The unloading process began Monday ...

The three cargo vessels were detained on Thursday while en route to Teknaf port from Yangon, Myanmar. The seizure of Maungdaw town in Rakhine by the Arakan Army has paralyzed trade activities at ...