Exodus began after Myanmar’s army launched clearance operations while searching for insurgents behind deadly raids on police border posts.

Human Rights Watch (HRW) and other rights groups have accused Myanmar of trying to cover up abuses perpetrated by the country’s government forces against Rohingya Muslims in the western state of Rakhine.

Myanmar's government Monday pledged to investigate a video apparently showing police beating and kicking Rohingya civilians, a rare admission that authorities may have carried out abuses against the Muslim minority.

Bangladesh’s Foreign Ministry says some 50,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled persecution and violence in Myanmar to Bangladesh since early October.

The first edition of the Science and Technology Exchange Program among Muslim Countries (STEP) has seen its fourth day in the Malaysian capital, Kuala Lumpur where a Jordanian participant of the ongoing forum has called on Muslim scientists to work for solving problems facing the world.

Sheikh Ahmed el-Tayeb, the rand Imam of Egypt’s al-Azhar Islamic Center, called for an end to the persecution of Rohingya Muslim minority in Myanmar.

Mohd Reza Haque, who is seen in a newly released video beheading a Syrian prisoner, has been revealed as a former Londoner.

Bangladeshi police have stopped thousands of Muslim activists from marching on the border with Myanmar in protest against a crackdown on Rohingya Muslims.

Satellite imagery and interviews with refugees place responsibility for burnings of Rohingya villages in Burma’s Rakhine State squarely with the Burmese military, Human Rights Watch said today. Since October 9, 2016, at least 1,500 buildings have been destroyed, driving thousands of ethnic Rohingya from their homes.

Hundreds of people in Pakistan have held a protest rally against the persecution of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar.

Around 21,000 Rohingya have fled to Bangladesh in recent weeks to escape violence in neighboring Myanmar, an official of the International Organization for Migration said Tuesday.

Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak led a protest rally on Sunday against what he called a “genocide” of Myanmar’s Muslim Rohingya minority, as he urged Asian neighbours and the world to step up the pressure to stop the violence.

1438-2016 - Imam Hassan Mujtaba martyrdom anniversary in Yangon, Myanmar

Tens of thousands of Muslims are rallying in the Indonesian capital, Jakarta, against the city's Governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, who is accused of insulting the Quran.

Former UN chief Kofi Annan is on a fact-finding mission in Myanmar to probe a bloody army crackdown on Rohingya Muslims in the country.