Four years after he plunged the country into chaos with his 2021 coup, Myanmar’s commander in chief, Min Aung Hlaing, handed ...

Min Aung Hlaing’s trip comes at a delicate time as the junta struggles to halt a rebel offensive that has seized swathes of ...

An announcement in state media said a decree that granted power to the military after its 2021 coup had been cancelled and a ...

Myanmar's junta ended its state of emergency on Thursday, ramping up plans for a December election that opposition groups ...

Moe Aung, who also once served as Navy chief, has disappeared from the new regime lineup amid a massive data leak and ...

The 2021 coup, overthrew the democratically elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi, and sparked the Myanmar civil war.

If Min Aung Hlaing wins those elections, China hopes he will have to give up control of the army. A new commander, the thinking goes, might end the fighting. It is a long shot.

Min Aung Hlaing visited China last month for the first time since ousting Myanmar's elected government led by Aung San Suu Kyi. He has also visited Russia twice, in July and August.

Military chief and de facto ruler Min Aung Hlaing will remain both interim president and commander-in-chief of the armed ...

Min Aung Hlaing studied law at Myanmar's Yangon University in the 1970s, but steered clear of the political activism and anti-military protests that were widespread at the time to instead focus on ...

In this image provided by The Myanmar Military True News Information Team, Myanmar's military leader Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing, center, shakes hands with a diplomat from Russian Embassy before ...

Myanmar's Military leader Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing, left, attends a wreath-laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, near the Kremlin Wall in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, March 4, 2025.