Maungdaw was once home to around 750,000 Rohingya, who fled to Bangladesh after allegedly genocidal attacks by the Myanmar military in 2017.

Mohammad Elias, another Rohingya resident of Maungdaw, said AA soldiers attacked his village last week, killing residents. “I saw it with my eyes. The AA launched a drone attack.

H umanitarian workers in western Burma’s remote and impoverished Maungdaw town have had no access to nearby villages for more than a week, since the military began counteroperations following a ...

Burmese army soldiers patrol a village in Maungdaw, in Burma, as security operations continue in Arakan state on Oct. 21, 2016 STR—AFP/Getty Images ...

Myanmar's ethnic armed group Arakan Army has captured the last military outpost in Maungdaw, gaining full control over the 271-kilometer border with Bangladesh and completing its hold on northern ...

After 2017 when the majority of Maungdaw's Rohingya community was expelled or killed, Buthidaung became home to the largest Rohingya community remaining in Myanmar.

COX'S BAZAR, Bangladesh, July 2 (Reuters) - It was soon after afternoon prayers at a mosque near western Myanmar's Maungdaw town last month that 45-year-old Abdur said he looked up and spotted a ...

Ethnic Rakhine have told Myanmar's government that they are opposed to Rohingya refugees being resettled in southern Maungdaw in restive Rakhine State. Some 80 people from civil society groups across ...

MAUNGDAW, Myanmar – The UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, has appealed to communities in Myanmar’s restive Rakhine state to unite in the face of fear, mistrust and underdevelopment.

MAUNGDAW, Myanmar, December 3 (UNHCR) - For generations, they lived side by side as friends and neighbours despite ethnic and religious differences. "We ate from the same plate, drank from the same ...

MAUNGDAW, Myanmar (Reuters) - The fence stretches as far as the eye can see, its concrete pillars carrying coils of barbed wire across the mountains and marshes of western Myanmar.