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

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

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 ...

For decades, Ha Toung kept quiet about his experience in Southeast Asia. Toung, a former officer of the Army of the Republic ...

Minnesota is on its way to officially recognizing the service of Hmong and Lao and other veterans who fought alongside the U.S. in the “Secret War” during the 1960s and 1970s in Laos. A veterans and ...

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 escape, it ...

Children of Southeast Asian veterans and others who endured hardship as a result of the Vietnam War and broader conflict in Laos and Cambodia are asking Minnesota lawmakers to do more to recognize ...

Imagine airplanes dropping bombs every 8 minutes, 24 hours a day, for 9 long years. This was the reality for Laos, a country scarred by a secret war most Americans never knew about. My parents, age 14 ...

Families and 27 state legislators in Michigan asked ICE to release 16 Hmong and Laotian refugees . Hmong refugees or their parents had helped the U.S. during the Vietnam War and the secret war in Laos ...

Minnesota House Rep. Kaohly Her said Monday her family “broke the law” to come to the U.S. from Laos following the Vietnam War, though she later said in a statement they came “legally as refugees.” ...

KEVIN KNODELL / KKNODELL @STARDVERTISER.COM Staff Sgt. Steven Saunders carries the possible remains of American Vietnam War dead recovered from Laos at Hickam Airfield on Friday. 1 /3 KEVIN KNODELL / ...