Ayas, a 25-year-old Rohingya refugee who teaches Burmese to children in the camps, tells The Independent that he and thousands like him are now united in their struggle against the Myanmar ...

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 U.S. government has confirmed it would provide $73 million in new financial aid for Rohingya refugees through the United ...

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

Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya reside in Bangladesh, including more than 700,000 who arrived in 2017 fleeing persecution in Myanmar. About 70,000 others crossed the border from Myanmar in 2024 ...

Myanmar's junta chief Min Aung Hlaing will join a regional leaders' summit in Thailand next week where he is seeking ...

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 ...

Dozens of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh gathered to pray for the early release of a Rohingya insurgent leader arrested this week on charges of murder, illegal entry and militant activities.

This time, however, he was not escaping the “raining bullets” that had killed his father – he was going back to train and fight against those responsible for his people’s bloody exodus from Myanmar.

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 ...