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

America's secret war sent my family fleeing Laos four decades ago. Now, I've just returned to my birthplace to help clear the unexploded ordnance.

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 ...

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

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, ...

The war is quickly fading from memory, in both America and Laos. But half a century later, the weavings offer a haunting glimpse of how it affected women. Monday marks 50 years since the U.S ...

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 ...

The CIA recruited and trained thousands of Hmong people to fight on behalf of Americans during a clandestine operation in Laos during the Vietnam War, known as the "Secret War." Now, those ...

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 ...

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.