Arakan (Rakhine) State recorded Myanmar’s highest combined civilian death and injury toll from military airstrikes between July and September 2026, with at least 98 people killed and 175 injured, according to a report released by Nyan Lynn Thit Analytica (NLTA) on October 31.

Battles between military junta forces and the Arakan Army are intensifying daily across Sittwe Township, the regime's last remaining stronghold in northern Arakan State, according to statements issued by the ethnic Arakanese armed group.

Around 300 junta soldiers were killed during a month of intense fighting between the military junta and joint resistance forces led by the Arakan Army and the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) in Indaw Township, Katha District, Sagaing Region, according to a statement released on October 30 by Kawlin District Battalion 4.

Restrictions on freedom of expression, media freedom and administrative accountability persist in territories controlled by resistance armed groups and Ethnic Resistance Organizations (EROs) across Myanmar, according to a report by the advocacy group Athan.

Arakan (Rakhine) State recorded Myanmar’s highest combined civilian death and injury toll during the week of October 23–29, with at least 14 people killed and 29 injured in attacks targeting civilians, according to a report by Nyan Lynn Thit Analytica (NLTA).

The military junta has held a ceremony to honour 38 conscripted soldiers reportedly returning from frontline combat zones in Sittwe Township, Arakan State, according to regime media reports.

Low rainfall during the late monsoon, combined with soaring temperatures, has caused poor paddy heading across the Panmyaunggyi Creek area in Anjanapura Township, raising concerns among local farmers about a sharp decline in this year's harvest.

Myanmar's military has increased its annual recruitment of new soldiers nearly eightfold since enforcing its conscription law, while lawmakers have largely avoided debating the policy despite widespread concerns over forced recruitment, according to a new report by ISP-Myanmar.

Seventy Arakanese civil society and charitable organisations have called on the international community to establish a no-fly zone over Myanmar's Arakan (Rakhine) State and provide emergency humanitarian assistance, warning that escalating military airstrikes and worsening food shortages are putting civilian lives at increasing risk.

Taking advantage of intense fighting between the military junta and the Arakan Army (AA) around Sittwe, the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) has stepped up its military activities along the Bangladesh–Myanmar border in Maungdaw Township in recent days, according to local sources.

A military junta jet fighter dropped two bombs on a high school in Kyeinchaung Village in northern Maungdaw Township, an area controlled by the Arakan Army (AA), shortly after 2:00 a.m. on October 30, according to local residents.

The military junta is attempting a second major offensive to advance into Ponnagyun Township, an area controlled by the Arakan Army (AA), triggering fierce fighting along the Sittwe–Ponnagyun border in recent days, according to local sources and military observers.

Arakan (Rakhine) State recorded the highest number of Myanmar military airstrikes nationwide between September 10 and October 7, according to the latest report by Burma News International's Myanmar Peace Monitor (BNI-MPM).

Family members are demanding the immediate rearrest of a man accused of raping a woman with intellectual disabilities and a speech impairment after he escaped from the Department of Law Enforcement and Public Security (DLEPS), which operates under the United League of Arakan (ULA), in Tattaung Town, Ann Township.

The military junta has issued a statement claiming that 28 male combatants from the Arakan Army (AA), the People's Defence Force (PDF) and the People's Liberation Force (PLF) surrendered with weapons in Ayeyarwady Region.

The military junta has begun releasing more than 400 Arakanese men and women who were detained in Yangon for 24 days after being deported from Malaysia, according to individuals who have been freed.

The Arakan Army (AA) attacked three junta warships near Sittwe on the evening of October 26, reportedly sinking two and damaging the third, according to military sources.

Myanmar's military junta and companies linked to it allegedly disguised aviation fuel imports as diesel and used intermediary companies to conceal shipments worth US$109.5 million, according to a new investigation by Justice For Myanmar (JFM).

Arakan recorded the highest number of Myanmar military junta airstrikes nationwide during a four-week period, while 214 civilians were killed in conflict-related violence across the country, according to a report by Burma News International (BNI).