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

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 ...

Myanmar’s rebel groups have made significant territorial gains against the ruling military junta over the past year. The armed group now controls key towns and strategic regions, posing the biggest ...

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 ...

BANGKOK (AP) — 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 ...

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 ...

It is known that, amid ongoing conflict with Myanmar’s government, the Arakan Army took control of the Maungdaw Township in Rakhine state on December 8. They also took control of the 5th Border ...