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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

I helped clear unexploded bombs in my birthplace to save the next generation It was my first time back to Laos since my family fled America's secret war four decades ago, when I was 7.

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 ...

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 ...

How Hmong soldiers in Minnesota are fighting to get veterans benefits 01:56. The CIA recruited and trained thousands of Hmong people to fight on behalf of Americans during a clandestine operation ...

For generations, the women of rural Laos have told the stories of their lives through weaving, threading symbols like flowers, rainstorms and mythical serpents into everyday clothes and fabrics.

For generations, the women of rural Laos have told the stories of their lives through weaving, threading symbols like flowers, rainstorms and mythical serpents into everyday clothes and fabrics.