Operating in western Myanmar, the Arakan Army has captured more land from the military than any other resistance group in the country since the coup nearly four years ago. From its origin as a ...
The rise of Arakan Army in Myanmar’s Rakhine state has reshaped the region, with the group controlling vast territory.
whose ancestors are believed to have been archers of a Mughal prince seeking refuge in the Arakan kingdom in the 17th century ...
The Rohingya were once counted as a part of the Mrauk-U (Mrohaung) kingdom in Arakan which stood independent of both the Burman kingdoms in the Irrawaddy delta and central Burma as well as Bengal ...
The violence occurred after more than 4,000 ethnic Rakhine Buddhists gathered in Mrauk U on Tuesday to protest at a ban on the annual commemoration of the fall of the ancient Arakan kingdom.