The Southeast Asian nation roughly the size of Texas is home to more than 100 different ethnic groups, some of whom were fighting for autonomy even before Myanmar won independence from Britain in ...

the major opposition organization that claims to be Myanmar's legitimate government. Some ethnic armed groups have allied themselves with the People’s Defense Force. The situation is complicated ...

Beijing continues to push for a political settlement that will allow strategic China-backed infrastructure projects to move ...

A Myanmar ethnic minority armed group is preparing to hand a captured city back to the military in a Beijing-brokered deal, China's foreign ministry said Tuesday, as residents reported junta ...

A second major Myanmar ethnic rebel group has said it is ready for Beijing-mediated talks with the junta to end more than a year of renewed fighting that has ravaged areas along the Chinese border.

BANGKOK -- One of Myanmar's most powerful ethnic minority groups battling the military government said it captured an airport serving the country's top world-class beach resort, marking the first ...

BANGKOKBANGKOK — An ethnic armed group in northeastern Myanmar has seized a major crossing point for trade along the Chinese border, residents and media reports said. The border gate in ...

BANGKOK — Ethnic armed groups claimed on Thursday to have captured two strategically important towns in northeastern Myanmar: Lashio, which houses the major regional military headquarters ...

China, which has long influenced Myanmar’s ethnic armed groups, is pressuring the Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army, or MNDAA — part of the Three Brotherhood Alliance that includes the ...