PAUKTAW: Gutted buildings, vacant windows and blocks bombed to rubble show the price paid by the western Myanmar town of Pauktaw for victory against the junta in the country’s civil war.Fighters from the Arakan Army (AA) ethnic minority armed group took control of the fishing port of 20,000 people in January, as the conflict sparked … Read more
The junta has lost control of around half its 5,280 military positions, according to an estimate. (File) A powerful armed ethnic group in Myanmar said on Sunday it had won control over a town in the western state of Rakhine after weeks of fighting, denying accusations it had targeted members of the Muslim-minority Rohingya during … Read more
Clashes have rocked Myanmar since the Arakan Army attacked security forces (File) Yangon, Myanmar: An armed ethnic minority group in Myanmar has said it captured a town and several junta outposts near the border with Bangladesh and India, in the latest setback for the embattled military. Clashes have rocked Myanmar’s western Rakhine and Chin states … Read more