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.

The leader of an armed group representing a persecuted Muslim minority from Myanmar was arrested in a raid in neighbouring ...

More than a million people in Myanmar will be cut off from life-saving food assistance provided by the World Food Programme ...

Jununi, a Pakistani-born Rohingya who grew up in Mecca, leads a group that has conducted attacks on officials in Myanmar as part of what it describes as “a defensive war with the brutal Burmese ...

Mr. Ataullah, who was identified by the Bangladeshi police as Ataullah abu Ammar Jununi, secretly recruited among Rohingya in Myanmar, both young and old, arguing that only an armed rebellion ...

Then a deadly crackdown by Myanmar’s army sent hundreds of thousands fleeing into Bangladesh. Driven from their homes, many of the Rohingya have since lived in refugee settlements entirely ...

UN food agency to cut aid for 1 million people in Myanmar - World Food Programme has said funding shortfall would mean cuts ...

Majuna Khatun sat cradling her six-month-old baby at a rehabilitation centre for Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh, worried her ...

Sudden cuts to food and health programmes are making an already grave humanitarian situation worse. Read more at straitstimes ...

An International Crisis Group report said Ataullah led ARSA's violent campaign in 2016 against Myanmar's security forces to reclaim the rights of Rohingya Muslims, who say they face persecution at ...

About a third of Myanmar’s population are facing acute food insecurity, experts say. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Myanmar has been in turmoil since early 2021 when the military seized power from an elected civilian government, sparking a ...