Attacks by the group, the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army, were used as a pretext by the Myanmar military to launch a campaign ...

Bangladesh has extended the power of commissioned army officials to enforce law and order amid the absence of police forces ...

and ethnic groups that are not ethnic Burman regard them as part of an effort to Burmanize national culture. Human Rights Watch uses the term “Burma.” The adjective “Burmese” is used to ...

Myanmar (Burma) - February 13, 2025 Young artists from the Mon ethnic group held a performance this Thursday to celebrate the 78th Mon National Day in the Burmese city of Yangon.

BANGKOK--One of the most powerful ethnic minority armed groups battling Myanmar’s army has claimed the capture of the last army outpost in the strategic western town of Maungdaw, gaining full ...

Attempts to map the areas controlled by the ... Given how central ethnic armed groups and political movements are to Myanmar's conflicts, how we define them carries a great deal of political ...

BANGKOK--Ethnic armed groups claimed on Thursday ... International Institute of Strategic Studies who runs its Myanmar Conflict Map project, said in an email. “The city is home to the ...

YANGON: Fighters from Myanmar's most powerful ethnic minority armed group have moved into a strategic town fought over by the junta and another ethnic armed group for weeks, they and the military ...

An ethnic minority militia guarding Myanmar's border says it has raided one of the transnational scam centers in the east of the country, near Thailand. It's believed that many people from around ...

An armed ethnic minority group in Myanmar says it has freed more than 7,000 foreigners from scam centers. A large number of foreigners are believed to have been forced to work in scam operations ...