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Monsoon Rains Threaten Rohingya Refugees

Bottom Line: As monsoon season bears down on Southeast Asia, U.S. officials say up to a 100,000 Rohingya refugees sheltering in the hills of [...] More

<p>A Rohingya refugee boy in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh.</p>

Tentative Deal May See Myanmar’s Rohingya Go Home—But To What?

Are Bangladesh and Myanmar poised to make progress to address the refugee crisis involving hundreds of thousands of ethnic Rohingya?Maybe.The two [...] More

Tillerson: Myanmar Guilty of “Ethnic Cleansing”

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Myanmar is guilty of “ethnic cleansing” in its crackdown on minority Muslim Rohingya, driving more than half a [...] More

Miliband: Rohingya Survival Demands Long Term Global Effort

The Cipher Brief spoke with David Miliband, President of the International Rescue Committee (IRC) and former British Foreign Secretary, about how the [...] More

Rohingya Suffering Feeds Extremist Message Worldwide

A major humanitarian catastrophe is unfolding in Myanmar, as tens of thousands of people, the country’s Rohingya Muslim minority, flee the threat of [...] More

ISIS or al Qaeda Unlikely to Expand in Myanmar

The struggle of Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslims is a regular topic of discussion on jihadist online message boards, frequently cited as the ultimate case [...] More

A New Dimension in Myanmar

October’s attacks on the Border Guard Police bases by the insurgent group Harakah al-Yaqin (HaY) in Myanmar’s Rakhine state and their aftermath have [...] More

Myanmar’s Rohingya Crisis – Fertile Ground for Jihadis in Southeast Asia?

Myanmar, formerly known as Burma, has largely disappeared from the news since its military junta was replaced by a relatively reformist government [...] More

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