Bangladesh and Its Strategic Partners Move to Safeguard the Rohingya Frontier

Reading Time: 4 minutes Emerging Strategic Consensus Bangladesh is quietly coordinating with a network of strategic partners — including the United States, Türkiye, and Pakistan — to ensure the protection of the Rohingya population amid intensifying conflict in Myanmar’s Rakhine State. Recent months have seen an uptick in joint exercises, logistics coordination, and intelligence-sharing designed to establish the framework for a secure humanitarian buffer zone stretching from Cox’s Bazar to Sittwe.This initiative, though not officially declared, is supported by growing evidence of multi-nation cooperation aimed at preventing cross-border violence and protecting civilians from the escalating clashes between Myanmar’s junta forces and the Arakan Army (AA). US Engagement and Regional Exercises The United States has significantly expanded its security cooperation with Bangladesh in recent months. A series of joint training operations between American and Bangladeshi Special Forces were conducted in Chattogram and Cox’s Bazar throughout the summer, lasting nearly a month.