Dhaka needs to engage with Arakan Army, which now controls over 80 percent of Rakhine State, including the 271-km border between Bangladesh and Myanmar, said security experts, former diplomats, and ...

Mature political parties should encourage the new political parties formed by the youths, said M Sakhawat Hussain, the labour ...

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

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

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

Nearly 65,000 Rohingya have crossed into southeastern Bangladesh since late last year amid unrest and violence in Rakhine, ...

With the sudden collapse of the al-Assad regime in Syria, analysts and fighters in other long running civil wars are ...

However, Arakan Army, a group formed by Rakhine community along with many other ethnic groups that are engaged in infighting ...

Security agencies have flagged concerns that advanced weaponry reaching Myanmar's rebel groups could end up in the hands of ...

More than seven years after some 750,000 Rohingya fled violent crackdowns in Myanmar’s Rakhine State to Bangladesh, solutions to the crisis remain elusive. In Myanmar, an escalating armed conflict ...

Rumor Scanner said recently a video of "Jemon Khushi Temon Sajo" (Dress up as you like) with the title "Usury has made the country a safe haven for militants" went viral on social media ...

Regime officials launched a diplomatic blitz this year, turning to China, India and even Iran for support as it lost more ...