Tony Yang watched the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021 as if it were a flashback. Nearly 50 years earlier, after helping the Americans in another war, it was him and his father who were ...

Tour guide Kham Dee gestures towards the deceptively idyllic landscape of Xieng Khouang province in north-eastern Laos and says that everything, from oil lamps, cowbells and cooking pots, is made from ...

“A Great Place to Have a War: America in Laos and the Birth of a Military CIA” (Simon & Schuster), by Joshua Kurlantzick Even with the hindsight of history, it’s mystifying that 56 years ago when John ...

So you had for the first time, really, in Laos a war that was mostly managed by and ramped up by the CIA, in collaboration to some extent with the U.S. Embassy in Laos. That in itself led to a very, ...

Kevin Xiong, the president of the Yuba-Sutter Hmong American Association, said that he was born in the midst of the “secret war” in Laos, and his dad served in that conflict. For context, from the ...

The war in Laos (1961-1975) brought the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency and Hmong together as allies when the agency engaged the Hmong to fight the North Vietnamese and the Communist Pathet Lao.

The Associated Press is reporting today that Vang Pao, the former leader of the CIA's secret army in Laos whose war on Communism ended when he and tens of thousands of fellow Hmong fled the country in ...

(VIENTIANE, Laos) — President Obama announced Tuesday that the United States would double its funding to clear bombs dropped in Laos during the Vietnam War era. An additional $30 million per year will ...

It sometimes seems as if the U.S. Government would like to make the very existence of Laos classified information. Thus, when the country’s Premier, Prince Souvanna Phouma, flew into Washington last ...