With its sweeping aid cuts, the Trump administration has effectively ended U.S. efforts to address a deadly legacy of the ...

20 placed a 90-day freeze on U.S. foreign aid such as vital dollars for bomb clearance. Many Americans who have lived or traveled to Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam understand that the war’s impact ...

a giant pile of bomb casings left over from the American bombing campaign in Laos, a stupendous and futile torrent of airborne destruction. And just beyond the junk heap of weaponry, a new ATM ...

When Lee Po Cha traveled to Laos in November 2022, he was given the opportunity to detonate a bomb. It was the first time in 48 years he had been back to his birth country. It became the most ...

An international effort is underway in rural areas of Laos, where 80 percent of the population lives, to remove the bombs.

“Over the course of the war, U.S. bombing of Laos would become so intense that it averaged one attack every eight minutes for nearly a decade,” observes Joshua Kurlantzick in his new ...

During the Vietnam War, the United States bombed Laos on a massive scale and in secret. The largest bombing campaign in history means that an estimated eighty million pieces of unexploded ordnance ...

While most tourists visiting Laos head to the ancient royal city of Luang Prabang, the capital Vientiane with its temples, ...

Many of the bombs fail to explode — until triggered later accidentally by a passerby. This aerial bombing campaign in Laos, and its deadly aftermath on the ground over ensuing decades, has rarely been ...