From 1959 to 1975, Laos became the site for one of the least known, yet most devastating, conflicts of the 20th century.

50 years ago, Don Super joined the military in hopes of helping the Lao people during the Vietnam War — instead, he found himself a part of a secret carpet bombing campaign. During the Vietnam War, ...

VANG VIENG, Laos -- The Central Intelligence Agency's "secret war" in Laos ended 50 years ago, silencing Lima Site 6 and other isolated airstrips which helped the U.S. carpet bomb this tiny ...

XIENG KHOUANG, Laos (Reuters) - Imagine growing up in a country where the equivalent of a B52 planeload of cluster bombs was dropped every eight minutes for nine years. Then imagine seeing your ...

In December 1971, Gene Hamner, Raven 12, was flying a T-28 aircraft along the Nam Ou River in Laos. Armed with .50-caliber machine guns and high-explosive rockets, Hamner and the CIA officer in his ...

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 ...

Staff Sgt. Steven Saunders carries the possible remains of American Vietnam War dead recovered from Laos at Hickam Airfield on Friday. U.S. Marine Corps Gunnery Sgt. Mitchell Hartman, an explosive ...

A new feature film examining the buried trauma of America’s “Secret War” in Laos is seeking co-producers and sales agents at ...