Myanmar army ordered to take offensive against Arakan Army

NAYPYITAW, Myanmar (AP) — Myanmar’s military says the Arakan Army, a rebel group in the same region where the government conducted an brutal counterinsurgency campaign against the Muslim Rohingya minority, has been classified a terrorist organization after mounting a flurry of recent attacks.
A military public relations team said at a news conference in the capital, Naypyitaw, that leader Aung San Suu Kyi ordered security forces to launch an offensive against the Arakan Army in Rakhi