BANGKOK (AP) — An airstrike by Myanmar’s army on a village under the control of an armed ethnic minority group killed about 40 people and injured at least 20 others, officials of the group and a local ...

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The Arakan Army, an armed group representing the Buddhist Rakhine ethnic community, has completely taken control of the northern part of Myanmar’s Rakhine state after capturing the Maungdaw outpost ...

BANGKOK (AP) — A powerful ethnic armed group in western Myanmar claimed Friday to have scored a major victory in the war against the ruling military, even as neighboring nations at a meeting in ...

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 control of the ...

An airstrike by Myanmar’s military on two private schools in a village in Myanmar has killed at least 18 people, most of them students, an armed group and local media reports said Friday. More than 20 ...

The incident comes less than a month after the group abducted 14 fishermen along with two trawlers from southeast of Saint Martin’s Island on 30 September (Tuesday). Earlier, the Arakan Army had also ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. BANGKOK (AP) — An airstrike by Myanmar’s ...