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Arakan Army Steps Up War Against Junta in Myanmar’s Rakhine State With Attack on Naval Base. 

Myanmar’s junta faced a second day of attacks on its main naval base in the south of Rakhine State on Tuesday after the Arakan Army – which announced Monday it was escalating attacks on junta troops in coordination with allies in the western state – seized junta outposts in two northern townships of the western state over the weekend.

The ethnic army launched its first-ever attack on Danyawaddy Naval Base in Kyaukphyu Township – south of the state capital Sittwe – with rocket fire on Monday.

Clashes also broke out in Ramree town on Madae Island, which is adjacent Kyaukphyu Township, today. A company owned by Aung Pyae Sone, the son of junta boss Min Aung Hlaing, is building a submarine port with foreign companies inside the naval base.

In northern Rakhine State’s Kyauktaw Township, the AA captured a junta outpost at about 9 p.m. on Saturday after its more than 200 troops surrendered. It had been attempting to seize Taung Shay Taung outpost since Dec. 25 in coordination with allied resistance groups.
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