Callahan, a Hartford native, enlisted two weeks before his 17th birthday and was sent around the world before landing in Vietnam in 1965. He wouldn't die there, but five decades later his body ...

Vietnamese and US descendants of those exposed to Agent Orange continue to face diseases and congenital anomalies.

Saigon fell on April 30, 1975, bringing an end to decades of war and triggering the country’s reunification. Now one of the ...

DA NANG, Vietnam (AP) — The Vietnam War ended on April 30, 1975, when the South Vietnamese capital of Saigon fell to ...

Between 1961 and 1971, the US military sprayed over 72 million litres of herbicides in Vietnam, including more than 45 million litres of Agent Orange, contaminated with toxic dioxin. Today, over three ...

Estimates suggest that currently, there are 3 million people, including many children, in Vietnam who are still suffering ...

When the Vietnam War finally ended on April 30, 1975, it left behind a landscape scarred with environmental damage . Vast ...

Vietnam is still grappling with the legacy of Agent Orange - The chemical ghost of the herbicide used by US forces still ...

The Vietnam War, which came to an end 50 years ago this week, has been followed by a similarly lopsided war of historical ...

More than 58,000 American soldiers died in the Vietnam War, but the number of those dying from its impacts continues to rise ...

Five decades after the fall of Saigon, America’s legacy and relationship with Vietnam are now mired in uncertainty.

Across Vietnam, U.S. forces sprayed sprayed 72 million liters (19 million gallons) of defoliants during the war to strip the enemy’s cover. More than half was Agent Orange, a blend of herbicides.