High over the jungle green hills of Laos, unmarked U.S. transport planes loosed red and white parachutes that floated down the supplies of war: ammunition, clothing and food. Only a few miles away, ...

The country's longstanding ties with its neighbor Laos constitute an alliance in everything but name.

The silvery Cessna Wren scudded high above the Plain of Jars, and the tiny man in rumpled fatigues peered down through eyes red-rimmed with exhaustion. Below him the wind moved casually over ...

Servants of God Mario Borzaga and Paul Thoj Xyooj were killed in hatred of the faith in April 1960. Guerilla fighters of the Pathet Lao, the group which martyred Father Mario Borzaga and Paul Thoj ...

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 survive ...