The Arakan Army is the military wing of the United League of Arakan (ULA), a political organisation representing the Buddhist population in Myanmar’s western Rakhine state.

The AA has entered into alliances and built on terrain and other advantages to emerge as a formidable organization in Rakhine ...

Referring to India's approach, Muniruzzaman noted that while New Delhi has historically maintained close ties with Myanmar's ...

They clung on through years of conflict in Myanmar but a surge of fighting has driven tens of thousands more Rohingya to flee ...

Foreign Affairs Adviser Md Touhid Hossain on Saturday said Bangladesh needs to “maintain a kind of balance” in pursuing its ...

Foreign Affairs Adviser Md Touhid Hossain on Saturday emphasised the need for a broad political consensus on safeguarding ...

The Irrawaddy looks back at the key players that shaped Myanmar in 2024, a year in which the junta suffered serious military ...

President-elect Donald Trump will soon inherit an array of conflicts in Asia, Africa, Europe and even North America.

when the Arakan Army slaughtered hundreds of innocent Rohingya Muslims near the border of Bangladesh in August. In recent ...

Brutally persecuted for years by the military in Myanmar, the Rohingya ethnic minority has now become the target of one of ...

In the attacks on 25 February, the army killed 179 people in Soro village and 44 others in the nearby Nondin village, an HRW investigation found. HRW termed the mass killings "among the worst army ...