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Arakan Army may have peaked in Myanmar’s civil war

by Anthony Davis December 17, 2025December 23, 2025

As the clock ticks down to the Myanmar military’s late-December election gambit, recent months have seen armed resistance to the junta suffer setbacks on multiple fronts. Notwithstanding sweeping popular rejection of fig-leaf polling crafted to entrench continued army rule, the coming months threaten to further tilt the battlefield balance against opposition forces. In the crosshairs […]

Arakan Army’s triumph ripples through China, India, Bangladesh

by Aung Thura Ko Ko February 20, 2025February 25, 2025

Aung San Suu Kyi isn’t the villain of Myanmar’s tragedy

by Alan Clements and Fergus Harlow January 31, 2025February 5, 2025

The strangulation of Myanmar’s ravaged Rakhine state

by David Scott Mathieson November 18, 2024November 25, 2024

(FILES) In this file photo taken on October 9, 2017 Rohingya refugees walk after crossing the Naf river from Myanmar into Bangladesh in Whaikhyang.Myanmar is continuing its "ethnic cleansing" of the Rohingya with a "campaign of terror and forced starvation" in Rakhine state, a UN human rights envoy said on March 6, 2018, six months after a military crackdown sparked a mass exodus of the Muslim minority. / AFP PHOTO / FRED DUFOUR

Wages of guilt for Myanmar’s Rohingya atrocity

by David Scott Mathieson August 25, 2023August 30, 2023

Why five years on, Rohingya refugee crisis still drags on

by Arpita Hazarika August 23, 2022August 23, 2022

Tun Myat Naing, commander-in-chief of the Arakan Army (AA), attends a meeting of leaders of Myanmar's ethnic armed groups at the United Wa State Army (UWSA) headquarters in Pansang in Myanmar's northern Shan State, May 6, 2015. Rebel leaders in Myanmar on Wednesday urged the government to amend the military-drafted constitution to give more autonomy to ethnic minorities, a step they said would make it easier to sign a national ceasefire agreement. REUTERS/Stringer - RTX1BTVZ

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Rebel yell: Arakan Army leader speaks to Asia Times

by Bertil Lintner January 18, 2022January 25, 2022

Rohingya refugees walk on the shore after crossing the Bangladesh-Myanmar border by boat through the Bay of Bengal in Shah Porir Dwip, Bangladesh September 11, 2017. Photo: Reuters/Danish Siddiqui

A Rohingya refugee’s search for safety, freedom and justice

by Shayna Bauchner August 25, 2021August 25, 2021

Who’s calling whom a terrorist in Myanmar?

by David Scott Mathieson May 10, 2021May 14, 2021

Rohingya refugees becoming Palestinians of Asia

by Bertil Lintner August 26, 2020August 31, 2020

A silhouetted Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army fighter against the rebel group's flag. Photo: Youtube

Curious revival of Myanmar’s rag-tag Rohingya rebels

by David Scott Mathieson May 5, 2020May 14, 2020

More than 700,000 Rohingya refugees who fled violence in Myanmar in 2017 now live in camps near Cox's Bazar in southern Bangladesh. But a British move in the UN to set a timeline for them to be returned may not succeed. Photo: AFP / Masfiqur Sohan

AT Finance, Bangladesh, Myanmar, South Asia

Secret gun factory in Cox’s Bazar raided after camp killings

by Bertil Lintner July 24, 2018February 18, 2020

Rohingya refugees who were intercepted by Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency off Langkawi island are escorted as they are handed over to immigration authorities, at the Kuala Kedah ferry jetty in Malaysia April 3, 2018. Photo: Reuters / Stringer

AT Finance, Bangladesh, Beijing, China, India, Middle East, Myanmar, Northeast Asia, Pakistan, South Asia, Thailand, World

Myanmar in the Dragon’s jaws

by Prakash Katoch April 4, 2018

Rohingya Muslims wait to cross the border to Bangladesh, in a temporary camp outside Maungdaw, northern Rakhine state, Myanmar November 12, 2017. Picture taken on November 12. Photo: Reuters

AT Finance, Bangladesh, Beijing, China, European Union, Myanmar, Northeast Asia, South Asia, World

Myanmar crisis: US and EU must deal with military

by Emanuele Scimia November 16, 2017November 16, 2017

An old woman struggles to carry to young boys during the mass exodus to Bangladesh. Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh say Myanmar troops and Rakhine Buddhists killed villagers indiscriminately during their crackdown, setting fire to hundreds of villages. Photo: AFP/ Muniz Uz Zaman.

AT Finance, Bangladesh, Myanmar, South Asia, World

Rohingya rebel group calls for one-month ceasefire as exodus grows

by AFP September 10, 2017February 18, 2020