The Pathet Lao are entitled to present their own candidates, but Red Prince Souphanouvong—the other Deputy Premier—has already denounced the process as illegal.

Every day for more than two months, five soldiers in the black-and-khaki uni form of the Pathet Lao stood guard at a large mud hut in a Red-held village near the Plain of Jars. Inside, Lieut ...

Captured and at the mercy of an increasingly cruel enemy, German-born US Navy pilot Dieter Dengler was left with no choice but to attempt a daring escape from the Pathet Lao prison camp in which ...

Trying to survive meant living in constant fear and being faced with difficult choices. At the end of the Secret War, Hmong women and children often surrendered to the Pathet Lao—but trying to ...

King Vatthana Savang, Queen Khamphou and Prince Say Vongsavang died in jail, the king dying of starvation, according to the U.S. State Department. In 1977, the Pathet Lao's Operation SamKieng ...

The Pathet Lao defeated the royalist forces in 1975, and Laos has been a communist state ever since. Foreign missionaries were expelled or fled that year, and now less than 2% of Laotians are ...

In 1975, the Communist Pathet Lao took control of the government ending a six-century-old monarchy and instituting a strict socialist regime closely aligned to Vietnam.

They took up arms against the Pathet Lao and the North Vietnamese, fighting a battle they would not win. Vang doesn’t talk much about his days as a child soldier, though he shared a single story.

Laos is one of the world's few openly communist states. It is a one-party state and the general secretary of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party holds ultimate power and authority over state and ...