Attacks by the group, the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army, were used as a pretext by the Myanmar military to launch a campaign ...

Amid fighting in Rakhine between Arakan Army and armed forces, immediate “dignified return” for refugees was difficult, he ...

Their actions – murdering “informants,” forced recruitment and extortion for their cause – may be war crimes, Fortify Rights says.

Security officials in Bangladesh arrested the leader of a Rohingya insurgent group on charges of illegal entry, sabotage and ...

Most of Myanmar's 1.1 million ethnic Rohingya Muslims are stateless and live in apartheid-like conditions in Rakhine state in the west of the predominantly Buddhist country. The government is ...

These actions have deepened ethnic fault lines between the Rakhine Buddhist majority and the Rohingya Muslim minority, exacerbating mistrust and perpetuating cycles of violence. While the AA has ...

U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres has described humanitarian aid cuts by the United States and other countries as “a ...

They live mostly in Rakhine state, where they have co-existed uneasily alongside Buddhists for decades. Rohingya people say they are descendants of Muslims, perhaps Persian and Arab traders ...

The United Nations food agency says that more than 1 million people in the war-torn nation of Myanmar will be cut off from ...

Instead he blames the army itself and the Mogh Baghi – a common term used by refugees for the Arakan Army, the most powerful Buddhist rebel ... Rehman, who fled Rakhine State during the 2017 ...

During fighting with the military junta, the opposition force known as the Arakan Army effectively took over the Rakhine state where ... the ultimate solution. The Buddhist-majority Myanmar ...