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The Arakan Army launched surprise assaults on two outposts of the Border Guard Police, a paramilitary force, in Rakhine’s Rathedaung township, according to independent online media and area ...
In Maungdaw Township, AA also captured a border outpost forcing 179 junta soldiers to flee into neighboring Bangladesh. [47] On 17 March, the Arakan Army captured the town of Rathedaung, cutting off Sittwe from northern Rakhine State. [48]
The raids took place around 6:45 am on January 4, Myanmar's independence day, in a remote area of northern Buthidaung Township. [1] [4] Burmese state media stated 350 AA fighters took part in the raids, with 100 attacking Ngamyinbaw police outpost, 100 at Kyaungtaung outpost, 100 at Khahtihla outpost, and 50 at Gokepi police outpost. [5]
These clashes escalated throughout August to November, with 100 battles occurring in nine Rakhine townships. [28] Thirty-six Tatmadaw outposts were destroyed, thirty-one of which were in northern Maungdaw. [28] The Tatmadaw launched a counteroffensive in November, but with major civilian casualties. A truce was signed on November 26. [28]
A drone attack on Rohingya fleeing Myanmar killed many dozens of people, including families with children, several witnesses said, describing survivors wandering between piles of bodies to ...
(Reuters) -Anti-junta fighters in Myanmar's Chin state were aiming to gain control of part of a porous border with India, after tasting early success with the takeover of two military outposts on ...
By early June 2024, only five outposts on the border with Bangladesh remained under the control of the junta, as the Arakan Army captured the Border Guard Station No. 6 in Inn Din village on 6 June. [ 354 ] 28 more soldiers of the Tatmadaw fled to Bangladesh and were handed over to the Border Guard Bangladesh on 11 June after escaping from the ...
Myanmar is locked in a civil war between the military on one side and, on the other, a loose alliance of established ethnic minority armies and a resistance movement born out of the ruling junta's ...