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 ...

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

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 in fighting has driven tens of thousands more Rohingya to ...

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 ...

The National Assembly voted Friday to impeach acting President Han Duck-soo less than two weeks after he took over for President Yoon Suk Yeol who was impeached for his botched imp... The impeachment ...

Cambodia’s Central Bank Greenlights Stablecoins and Backed Coins, Excludes Bitcoin ...