United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi on Tuesday told the UN Security Council that the Bangladesh interim government chose to engage with the parties to the conflict in the Rakhine state to pursue a solution to the Rohingya crisis that...
Foreign Affairs Adviser Md Touhid Hossain on Sunday said Bangladesh agreed in principle to provide a humanitarian corridor to Rakhine in line with UN proposal.
Foreign adviser Md Touhid Hossain on Monday said that the international community must demonstrate to ensure the repatriation of the forcibly displaced Myanmar nationals, the Rohingyas, to their motherland in Rakhine state through a roadmap...
MYANMAR鈥橲 ongoing civil war has reached a critical point, with the rise of ethnic armed organisations significantly altering the balance of power in the country. Among these groups, the Arakan Army has gained substantial control over Rakhine State, capturing key border areas near Bangladesh. This shift in power has further complicated the already...
OR centuries, the polities located in the Bengal delta聽 鈥� the Bengal Sultanate, the Bengal subah, or the Bengal Presidency 鈥� have shared complex ties with Arakan (Rakhine State) and Burma (Myanmar). While there existed substantial trade links, cultural interaction and migration flows between the two regions, they also engaged in intermittent warfare...
A Myanmar junta air strike killed 28 people, including children, and wounded 25 at a temporary detention area in western Rakhine state, an ethnic minority armed group said on Sunday...
THE Arakan Army on December 20, 2024 captured the headquarters of the Myanmar military鈥檚 western command in Ann town, marking a historic occasion for the organisation鈥檚 meteoric rise to power in Rakhine State controlling majority of the parts. The Arakan Army now controls 14 of 17 townships of Rakhine State, including Paletwa township in neighbouring Chin State...
A Myanmar junta air strike killed at least 40 people in a village in western Rakhine state, a rescue worker and ethnic minority armed group said on Thursday.
MYANMAR鈥橲 Rakhine State with 36,780 square kilometres of land area is composed of seven districts 鈥� Ann, Kyaukphyu, Maungdaw, Mrauk-U, Sittwe, Taungup and Thandwe. As of December 25...
A Myanmar ethnic rebel group has captured a military regional command in Rakhine state, it said, in what would be a major blow to the junta.
Foreign adviser Md Touhid Hossain has reiterated the call for a 鈥榗omprehensive roadmap鈥� for Rohingya repatriation with priority attached to ensuring stability in Rakhine State...
The Teknaf upazila administration relaxed the ban on passenger vessels鈥� operation in the River Naf after Friday night鈥檚 discussion between the administration and the trawler owners on the security situation...
A few trawlers travelled from Shaporidwip to Saint Martin island via Kular Char on Thursday as the Teknaf upazila administration relaxed vessel ban through the Naf River.
Tension remained high along the Bangladesh-Myanmar border as of Wednesday evening amid a heightened risk of a fresh influx of Rohingya people as rebel group Arakan Army had established its full control along the border between the two countries in the Rakhine state...
Foreign adviser Md Touhid Hossain on Saturday underlined the need for a national consensus to address the Rohingya crisis, which has been further complicated by the ongoing civil war in Myanmar, particularly in Rakhine State...
Myanmar鈥檚 conflict-torn Rakhine state is heading toward famine, the United Nations warned on Thursday, as the country鈥檚 civil war squeezes commerce and agricultural production.
Chief adviser professor Muhammad Yunus on Monday called for creating a 鈥榮afe zone guaranteed by the UN鈥� for the displaced people in Rakhine and finding ways to support them...
A group of 85 Bangladeshi nationals on Saturday departed Sittwe Port in Rakhine State of Myanmar to return home.
Around 8,000 Rohingyas had recently crossed into Bangladesh, fleeing armed conflict in Myanmar鈥檚 Rakhine state, foreign affairs adviser Md Touhid Hossain said on Tuesday...
Rohingyas on Sunday sought the assistance of the interim government for their safe return to Myanmar as they observed the seventh anniversary of the exodus of the displaced people from the Rakhine state of the bordering country...
Ambassador of China to Bangladesh Yao Wen on Sunday iterated that China would remain committed to finding a durable solution to the Rohingya crisis, including a ceasefire in violence-torn Rakhine State in Myanmar...
UN FEARS for a likely repeat of the 2017 atrocities that Myanmar鈥檚 security forces committed against the Rohingyas in Rakhine State against the background of an unfolding tragedy now brings to the fore a couple of issues for the global forum itself and the world community to seriously consider. The UN human rights chief has voiced grave alarm...
The clashes between the Myanmar military forces and rebel groups in Myanmar鈥檚 Rakhine sparked fresh panic in bordering areas of Teknaf upazila headquarters and neighbouring villages in Cox鈥檚 Bazar amid the sound of firing from heavy weapons and mortar shells...
Myanmar鈥檚 Rakhine State is facing a terrifying situation similar to the run up to 鈥榞enocidal violence鈥� eight years ago against the persecuted Rohingya minority, a UN expert warned on Thursday...
ASEAN Parliamentarians for Human Rights, a regional network for promoting democracy and human rights across Southeast Asia, has expressed concern over media reports that thousands of Rohingya may be caught in the crossfire between the Arakan Army and the Myanmar military junta in Rakhine state in the ongoing civil war in the Southeast Asian nation...
Bangladesh on Sunday sent back 134 more Myanmar Border Guard Police and Army personnel by a Myanmar Naval ship...
UN chief Antonio Guterres condemned on Thursday recent attacks by Myanmar鈥檚 military that reportedly killed scores of civilians in western Rakhine state...
A Myanmar ethnic minority armed group on Saturday claimed its fighters had seized control of a town in western Rakhine state, in what would be...
A Myanmar military air strike on a medical clinic wounded around 20 people in western Rakhine state, according to an ethnic armed group, a resident and local media on Wednesday...
A Myanmar ethnic armed group said on Monday it had captured a military command and taken hundreds of junta personnel prisoner in...