Myanmar's leader, Min Aung Hlaing, embarks on his first foreign tour to India as the government seeks to strengthen its regional standing while engaged in a brutal civil war.

The tour comes as Myanmar's new government tries to consolidate its political position regionally, while continuing to wage a brutal civil war. <img alt="Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing, then head of Myanmar" src="https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims3/default/strip/false/crop/4853x3235+0+0/resize/4853x3235!/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F79%2Fd5%2Feea2007849a492f2de12558ef884%2Fap26100239133592.jpg" /><p>The tour comes as Myanmar's new government tries to consolidate its political...