On Monday, the AA announced it was advancing eastward through the Rakhine (Arakan) Mountains and had captured the Moe Hti base between Rakhine’s Taungup and Bago’s Padaung on Sunday, after a five-day assault.

Myanmar’s junta now only controls 21% of the country. Even if the regime can be ousted, there are increasing fears the country will split along ethnic lines.

The Arakan Army said its fighters were 'unable to control their anger' against junta forces when they committed the atrocity last year Myanmar rebel group the Arakan Army has confessed to beheading two prisoners,

Interra Resources’ majority stake in Goldpetrol makes the firm 'complicit' in the Myanmar junta’s alleged war crimes, says activist group

Four years after the military coup which plunged Myanmar into turmoil, the country is facing an unprecedented “polycrisis,” marked by economic collapse, intensifying conflict, complex climate hazards and deepening poverty,

According to the reports, the Arakan Army is now marching ahead to take control of these weapons factories to further strengthen its military power.

At least 35 civilians, including ten children, were killed in nationwide junta airstrikes and shelling over the weekend, according to anti-junta groups.

It was not clear if airstrike in western Rakhine state was mistargeted or if junta was unaware of temporary detention area’s location

Rights groups called on International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate war crimes committed by the militias

Misrepresented images continued to swirl on social media around the unrest in Myanmar's western Rakhine state that is riven with ethnic and religious divisions. Burmese Facebook posts in January shared a photo of a violent scuffle they falsely claimed shows militants attacking a rival rebel group that controls large parts of Rakhine.

The Arakan Army is engaged in a fierce fight with the military for control of Rakhine, where it has seized swaths of territory in the past year, all but cutting off the state capital Sittwe. A Myanmar junta airstrike killed 28 people including children and ...

"The military is in a state of decline; it is weak and shrinking. The military has seen a wave of desertions, defeats, low morale and loss of dignity."