As Hmong Americans mark the 50th anniversary of their arrival in the U.S. this year, the role of Hmong women, who were ...

I helped clear unexploded bombs in my birthplace to save the next generation It was my first time back to Laos since my family fled America's secret war four decades ago, when I was 7.

LONG TIENG, LAOS – We met in the Laotian capital of Vientiane, not far from the spot on the Mekong River where the Xiong family fled to Thailand one night in May 1975. At the time of their ...

US ‘Secret War’ remembered as Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin visits Laos. Al Jazeera looks back at the most devastating period in Laos’s history, when the US waged a years-long ‘Secret ...

Mission returns remains from ‘Secret War’ in Laos to Hawaii. Kevin Knodell, The Honolulu Star-Advertiser. Sun, March 2, 2025 at 5:05 PM UTC. 6 min read.

A CIA military base was their home during the ‘Secret War’ in Laos. Now Hmong Americans can finally see it again. Long Tieng once housed one of the busiest air hubs in the world in the 1960s, ...

How Hmong soldiers in Minnesota are fighting to get veterans benefits 01:56. The CIA recruited and trained thousands of Hmong people to fight on behalf of Americans during a clandestine operation ...

The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency has identified the remains of three airmen killed in action in Laos in 1968 when their ...

During the Vietnam War, the U.S. recruited and armed more than 40,000 Hmong people and other Laotian fighters in their battle against North Vietnam, known as the "Secret War," according to ...

Many Hmong people fought for the U.S. during the “Secret War,” a CIA-led campaign against Laotian communists and the North Vietnamese in Laos that sought to disrupt the Ho Chi Minh Trail, a ...

Currently, 1,573 personnel remain missing from the Vietnam War, and some 280 are believed to be in Laos. During the war Laos was, at least on paper, a neutral country, according to the ...