In Myanmar, a relatively new ethnic armed group known as the Arakan Army has recently taken control of 15 out of 17 townships in the war-torn country's western Rakhine state. This includes the ...

In a program, he said, ‘The day the Arakan Army hoisted its flag on our border, I immediately realized that this is a new world. You have to deal with them.’ Myanmar in the grip of civil war ...

BANGKOK -- The Arakan Army (AA), an armed ethnic group in Myanmar, is taking advantage of the monsoon rains sweeping across the country to intensify its offensive against the military regime's ...