Dhaka needs to engage with Arakan Army, which now controls over 80 percent of Rakhine State, including the 271-km border between Bangladesh and Myanmar, said security experts, former diplomats, and ...

Mature political parties should encourage the new political parties formed by the youths, said M Sakhawat Hussain, the labour ...

The National Task Force on Forcibly Displaced Myanmar Citizens has urged the United Nations to take coordinated and effective ...

Foreign Affairs Adviser Md Touhid Hossain on Saturday said Bangladesh needs to “maintain a kind of balance” in pursuing its ...

DHAKA, Dec 28, 2024 (BSS) – Foreign Affairs Adviser Md Touhid Hossain today emphasized the need for a broad political ...

Brutally persecuted for years by the military in Myanmar, the Rohingya ethnic minority has now become the target of one of ...

The Irrawaddy looks back at the key players that shaped Myanmar in 2024, a year in which the junta suffered serious military ...

The Arakan Army is the military wing of the United League of Arakan (ULA), a political organisation representing the Buddhist ...

The AA has entered into alliances and built on terrain and other advantages to emerge as a formidable organization in Rakhine ...

They clung on through years of conflict in Myanmar but a surge of fighting has driven tens of thousands more Rohingya to flee ...

With the sudden collapse of the al-Assad regime in Syria, analysts and fighters in other long running civil wars are ...

In terms of global military advancements, the emphasis on artillery units as a measure of power is gaining prominence.