The United League of Arakan (ULA) and its military wing, the Arakan Army, have captured 15 of the 18 townships of Rakhine ...

Michael Martin is an adjunct fellow at Washington's Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). He served as a ...

The Chin Brotherhood says regime forces are now restricted to camps in Hakha, Falam, Tedim and Thantlang towns.

Myanmar’s junta forces now control less than half the country after suffering major battlefield setbacks in 2024 – including ...

The Arakan Army says that it is ready to engage in “political dialogue” and vowed to safeguard foreign investments in Rakhine ...

Arakan Army's control over Myanmar's Rakhine increases tension for ... The project is expected to benefit Rakhine and neighbouring Chin state economically. Improvements in trade routes may ...

The capture by the Arakan Army of a strategically important regional army ... The headquarters had overseen operations in ...

BANGKOK--One of the most powerful ethnic minority armed groups battling Myanmar ... the army’s western command, which controls Rakhine and the southern part of neighboring Chin state, as ...

Myanmar Army efforts to suppress the tribal forces have not only failed ... The escalation began in mid-2018 as the army increased its efforts to impose control on Rakhine and Chin states along the ...

The Arakan Army, which seeks autonomy from Myanmar’s central government ... of nine of 17 townships in Rakhine and one in adjacent Chin state. In early June that the group declared it would ...

One of the most powerful ethnic minority armed groups battling Myanmar’s army has claimed the capture ... along with one in neighboring Chin state. Ann, a town in Rakhine that hosts the ...