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).

With the military junta enforcing a blockade on all land and water routes into Sittwe, residents seeking to flee intensifying urban combat have been left relying on commercial air travel to leave the city.

According to MSF, at least one shell exploded at a junction in downtown Sittwe used by civilians moving through the increasingly restricted city. Most of the reported casualties occurred at that location.

With the military junta launching repeated airstrikes across Arakan State, the United League of Arakan (ULA) has urged the public to exercise extreme caution and remain vigilant during the upcoming Thadingyut festival.

A months-long internet shutdown in Thandwe and Gwa townships has severely disrupted social and economic life across southern Arakan State, according to local residents.

Several local residents were injured when the military junta launched airstrikes across Werathani Township early on the morning of October 24.

As heavy fighting intensifies across Sittwe, residents attempting to build bomb shelters at their homes for protection are being ordered by the military junta to dismantle them, according to local sources.

Arakan (Rakhine) State recorded the highest number of military incidents in Myanmar during the week of October 16–22, while at least 78 civilians were killed and 60 others injured in attacks nationwide, according to a report by Nyan Lynn Thit Analytica (NLTA).