At the start of each year, our team of specialist editors produces a list of 10 crises to watch. The 2025 list has been ...

The military junta holds less than 50 percent of Myanmarese territory, but as long as it holds on to the majority of ...

Capture of Western Command in Rakhine State has exposed the regime's military-industrial complex in Magwe and Bago.

Michael Martin is an adjunct fellow at Washington's Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). He served as a ...

China has much at stake. Its 771-kilometer oil and gas pipeline dissects Rakhine from its capital Sittwe through to Myanmar’s ...

The world bid farewell to 2024 which forged a phase marked by its democratic struggles, political reforms, and major shifts ...

The United League of Arakan (ULA) and its military wing, the Arakan Army, have captured 15 of the 18 townships of the Rakhine ...

They cautioned that delays in establishing contact with the Arakan Army could lead to “missed opportunities” as external actors increasingly engage with Rakhine through maritime routes ...

Myanmar’s military government will release more than 6,000 prisoners and has reduced other inmates’ sentences as part of a mass amnesty to mark the 77th anniversary of independence from Britain ...

Myanmar’s junta forces now control less than half the country after suffering major battlefield setbacks in 2024 – including ...

The Arakan Army says that it is ready to engage in “political dialogue” and vowed to safeguard foreign investments in Rakhine ...

Soldiers have been fighting the Arakan Army/AA rebels in the area since mid-2019 and periods of active combat have been increasingly common in the last few months. Not a lot of casualties but enough ...