Service members and military officials gathered Friday morning at Hickam Airfield to welcome a Hawaii National Guard C-17 airplane arriving with precious cargo.

who ultimately defeated the US-backed royalist forces in the country’s civil war in 1975, governing the country with an iron fist ever since. “The nature of the politics in Laos is so hermit ...

VIENTIANE, Laos--Southeast Asian foreign ministers and ... three days of talks expected to focus on the increasingly violent civil war in Myanmar, tensions in the South China Sea and other ...