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 ...

Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) has successfully brought back 26 fishermen from the Arakan Army, who had been abducted from different times in the Naf River in Teknaf, Cox’s Bazar. The fishermen were ...

Twenty-nine Bangladeshi fishermen who were taken by Myanmar’s Arakan Army, were returned by the group after a week. The fishermen were brought back to Bangladesh on Thursday through the jetty at Shah ...

The Arakan Army (AA) has gradually become the dominant ... follow a modified curriculum that includes Rakhine history and culture, in contrast to the centralized Myanmar education system.

The capture by the Arakan Army of a strategically important regional army headquarters in Rakhine state would put it a step closer to seizing control of the entire state, a goal not achieved by ...

The Arakan Army says that it is ready to engage in "political dialogue" and vowed to safeguard foreign investments in Rakhine State. The AA has entered into alliances and built on terrain and ...

It is important to note that the Arakan Army currently controls Myanmar’s Rakhine state, which borders Bangladesh. It is believed that the conflict between the Arakan Army and Myanmar’s junta ...

Speculation over the Arakan Army's demand for "tariff" from the border trade between Bangladesh and Myanmar was confirmed by Home Adviser Lt Gen (retd) Jahangir Alam Chowdhury yesterday.