In early 2023, I began planning a reporting assignment to the war-torn territories in southern Chin State and Rakhine State in western Myanmar. When the plans were finalized toward the end of June ...
The ethnic Arakan Army (AA) on Thursday said it took control of Taungup town in southern Rakhine State on Nov. 24 after a 17-day battle. The AA launched the offensive on Nov. 4 and seized some dozen ...
Min Aung Hlaing was head of Myanmar's armed forces when the military launched a crackdown in 2017 following what it said were attacks by Rohingya insurgents in Rakhine state. Bringing harrowing ...
Soldiers, police, and Buddhist villagers are alleged to have razed hundreds of villages in the remote western Rakhine state. The offensive was in response to raids by Rohingya insurgents on 30 ...
Yangon: The UN has urged Myanmar’s de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi to visit the north of Rakhine state, where the army is accused of carrying out a brutal crackdown on the Muslim Rohingya minority.