Arakan Now | 22 Feb 2026 Local Rakhine residents, together with members of the Arakan Army, are dismantling Rohingya houses and mosques in Myawtaung Village, northern Maungdaw Township, and using the materials to construct new Rakhine settler villages, eyewitnesses said. In 2017, Myanmar’s military burned most of the houses and mosques in Myawtaung Village and forced residents to flee to Bangladesh during the genocidal clearance operations against the Rohingya. After that, ab

Photo: AA Info Desk Arakan Now | 22 February 2026 The Arakan Army (AA) detained 22 Rohingya families who returned to Maungdaw Township from refugee camps in Bangladesh and held them for three months, according to interviews conducted by Arakan Now with several former detainees. The families, totaling around 100 people, including women and children, are from the villages of Pyan Taw Pyin (four families), Shwe Zar (17 families), and Nyaung Chaung (one family). Those interviewed

Arakan Now | 21 February 2026 Rohingya residents of Maung Na Ma village in northern Maungdaw Township, Rakhine State, were forcibly displaced from their homes in 2017 following genocidal military operations. After the Arakan Army took control of Maungdaw Township, ethnic Rakhine families were resettled in the vacated houses and surrounding farmland. The affected residents fled to Bangladesh during the 2017 attacks, leaving behind homes, agricultural land, and other property.

Photo: Times of Bangladesh Arakan Now | 20 Feb 2026 The Bangladesh Coast Guard has rescued 55 people, including women and children, during an anti-human trafficking operation in Baharchhara area of Teknaf upazila. Five alleged human traffickers were arrested in the drive, according to BSS. Coast Guard Media Officer Lieutenant Commander Siam-ul-Haq disclosed the information on Friday. He said that acting on a tip-off, separate teams from Coast Guard Outpost Baharchhara, Shahpo