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 ...

On Dec. 20, the Arakan Army (AA) – a powerful Rakhine Buddhist EAO – captured the Myanmar military’s Western Command ...

A centuries-old partnership between fishermen and critically endangered Irrawaddy dolphins in Myanmar is threatened by ...

Paul Scully, whose family left Myanmar for Britain, saw ‘horrible things’ as Rohingya Muslim minority suffered violence and ...

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

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

The Arakan Army is the military wing of the United League of Arakan (ULA), a political organisation representing the Buddhist ...

The Kachin Independence Army says it is still fighting to seize Mansi and the regime power hub of Bhamo in Kachin State.

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

Exclusive: National Unity Government hopes Independent TV documentary on ousted leader ‘will wake up international community’ ...

The Arakan Army's growing territorial gains, and seemingly undeterred momentum, have raised questions about the rebel group's ultimate goal.Since Myanmar's military staged a coup and ousted the ...

The military junta ruling Myanmar, an ally of Russia which also has close ties to China, has suffered a series of major ...