The elections were never held and the country remained divided: North Vietnam was a communist republic led by Ho Chi Minh. South Vietnam was a capitalist republic led by Ngo Dinh Diem. The ...

Vietnam is following in the footsteps of rival Spratly Islands claimant China in building military-purposed infrastructure, ...

Vietnam was largely fought disproportionately by working-class whites and Blacks and Hispanics, and they were very young. The ...

March 29, 1973: The last U.S. ground troops depart the Republic of Vietnam ... drawn-out conflict between North Vietnam and South Vietnam and its main supporter, the United States.

The Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative estimates that Hanoi has created 641 new acres of land in the disputed Spratly ...

Born Nguyen Sinh Cung, and known as "Uncle Ho," Ho Chi Minh led the Democratic Republic of Vietnam from ... underground Communist organization in South Vietnam. After Ho's death, Le assumed ...

9, 2012. (AP Photo/Maika Elan, File) FILE- A Vietnamese soldier stands guard in front of military aircraft near a dioxin contaminated area while U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis visits Bien Hoa air ...