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 control of ...

Everyone was scared because we have never left Maungdaw, so did not know what to expect in Bangladesh. We crossed the river to Bangladesh by boat. We paid the owner 20,000 Myanmar Kyat ($15 ...

Myanmar’s military government did not immediately comment. Maungdaw, about 400 kilometers (250 miles) southwest of Mandalay, Myanmar’s second-largest city, has been the target of an Arakan ...

Myanmar's junta is pushing back with a new ... The focus has since shifted from Buthidaung to the neighboring township of Maungdaw, also home to a large population of Rohingya.

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 ...