People are seen in Myanmar's Maungdaw township from the Teknaf area of Bangladesh, at the Myanmar-Bangladesh border on June 27, 2024. Mohammad Ponir Hossain/Reuters/File. CNN — ...

Maungdaw, about 400 kilometers (250 miles) southwest of Mandalay, Myanmar’s second-largest city, has been the target since June of an Arakan Army offensive.

Maungdaw was once home to around 750,000 Rohingya, who fled to Bangladesh after allegedly genocidal attacks by the Myanmar military in 2017. In September 2019, ...

Myanmar's Rohingya in the Crosshairs as Fighting Escalates in Rakhine (This May 27 story has been corrected to reflect the amended UN press note to say that 4,000 Rohingya, not 45,000, have fled ...

Around 70,000 Rohingya in Maungdaw are trapped as the fighting draws closer, Aung Kyaw Moe, deputy human rights minister in the shadow National Unity Government, told Reuters on Monday.

Five months after the attacks and subsequent raids, daily life in Maungdaw — a dusty city near the Naf River marking the border between Myanmar and Bangladesh — continues, though a curfew ...

Burmese army soldiers patrol a village in Maungdaw, in Burma, as security operations continue in Arakan state on Oct. 21, 2016 STR—AFP/Getty Images. By Feliz Solomon.

Rohingya refugees gather behind a barbed-wire fence in a temporary settlement set up in a border zone between Myanmar and Bangladesh, in a photo taken from Maungdaw district, Myanmar's Rakhine ...