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 ...

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, ...

"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 ...

Its origins lay in the immediate aftermath of World War II when the Japanese were forced to surrender the French colony of Laos to its former masters. But France’s empire in Indochina was finished and ...

(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 ...