Monthly Review | December 2025
In December 2025, fierce fighting persisted in Myanmar's Rakhine State between the Arakan Army (AA/ULA) and the military junta, with AA securing significant battlefield gains by seizing outposts, inflicting heavy casualties, capturing equipment, and prompting defections across multiple fronts including,...
Monthly Review | November 2025
From 1-Nov to 30-Nov-25, Rakhine State saw a dramatic escalation of conflict and civilian suffering. The Arakan Army inflicted a major defeat on the junta in the strategic battle of Kyaukphyu (1–9 Nov), forcing regime troops into a chaotic retreat despite massive air and, naval support. Throughout the month, the military responded with ...
Monthly Review | October 2025
From 1-Oct to 31-Oct-25, Rakhine State endured fierce AA-junta clashes, ARSA insurgent attacks, and deepening civilian suffering. The military bombarded townships with airstrikes and artillery, killing dozens including 23 in September bombings and 10 on 31-Oct across Ponnagyun, Rathedaung, and Kyaukphyu, while AA seized ...
Monthly Review | September 2025
From September 1 to September 30, 2025, Rakhine State and adjacent areas faced intensified conflict and humanitarian challenges. The Myanmar junta escalated airstrikes and artillery attacks, notably killing 23 students in Kyauktaw (September 12–13) and causing civilian casualties in Mrauk-U, Paletwa, and Rathedaung. The Arakan Army (AA)...
Monthly Review | August 2025
In August 2025, Rakhine State saw escalated conflict with Myanmar's junta launching airstrikes and naval attacks in Kyaukphyu and Mrauk-U, causing significant civilian casualties, including 14 deaths in a Mrauk-U airstrike. The Arakan Army (AA) clashed with junta forces, seized territories, and faced accusations of human rights abuses against Rohingya and, ...
Monthly Review | July 2025
In July 2025, the conflict in Rakhine State, particularly in Kyaukphyu, escalated despite initial attempts at ceasefire extensions. The Arakan Army (AA) made significant territorial advances, capturing strategic outposts along key supply routes and resisting junta counterattacks through shelling and coordinated assaults...
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The 2025 elections in Myanmar were conducted amid ongoing armed conflicts, territorial fragmentation, and political suppression and repression, functioning primarily as a managed authoritarian process rather than...
From November 2023 to December 2024, the resumption of armed clashes in Arakan, driven by the Arakan Army (AA) as part of the broader '1027 Operation,' severely disrupted border trade with Bangladesh ...
While alliances in northern Myanmar remain strategically important, these new western partnerships reflect the AA’s dual focus on homeland security and a broader political role in Myanmar’s future ...
While the Rakhine attribute the crisis to the loss of sovereignty and lack of autonomy for their region, the Rohingya view the lack of recognition of their ‘Rohingya identity’ and status as an indigenous ethnic group...
In comparison between Cyclone Nargis and Mocha, the military regimes’ responses, and actions towards the cyclones’ management in short and long-term perspectives can be seen as not too different. Their own actions for emergency responses and rehabilitation processes remain insufficient in certain factors that lead the affected communities to be more harmful.
The Rakhine State in Myanmar offers immense potential for foreign direct investment (FDI) owing to its strategic location, abundant natural resources, and diverse opportunities in sectors such as agriculture, fishery, tourism, oil and gas, and services. In this context, it is essential to examine the major investments made by China and India in Rakhine State to understand their implications for the local stakeholders.
While the junta’s forces and Arakan Army (AA) are now in an informal truce, the news of the registration of the political parties in Rakhine have become more prominent in March. As the twoarmed parties are in a lack of trust toward each other,...
While the junta’s forces and Arakan Army (AA) are now in an informal truce, the news of the registration of the political parties in Rakhine have become more prominent in March.
In February 2023, both tensions and relaxation could be seen in politics in Rakhine State. Tensions between the Arakan Army, and junta forces happened due after the junta forces' reinforcement such as military types of equipment, patrol and,...
Just 20 months after a de facto ceasefire between the Myanmar military and the Arakan Army (AA), a series of armed clashes resumed in three locations in northern Rakhine,...
