Climbing a small, scrubby hill behind the little riverside town of Mrauk U ... The site lies in Rakhine state, an isolated region at the western corner of Myanmar, with poor infrastructure ...

The Arakan Army moved into Pauktaw, a town of 20,000 people close to a crucial deepwater port in the capital of western Rakhine state, on November 15. It opened a new front in an offensive by an ...

One of the most powerful ethnic minority armed groups battling Myanmar’s army claims it has captured the last military ...

An ethnic Rakhine rebel group in the state vowed retaliation for the deaths ... other unexploded hand-made bombs had been found in the city. Sittwe is about 100km (60 miles) south of where most ...