DIEN BIEN PHU, Vietnam (AP) — Vietnam on Tuesday celebrated the 70th anniversary of the battle of Dien Bien Phu in which the French colonial army was defeated by Vietnamese troops, marking the end of ...

The First Indochina War began as France attempted to reassert colonial control over Vietnam after World War II, but the conflict quickly escalated into a brutal Cold War battleground. Communist-led ...

Pierre Schoendoerffer was a war photographer in what was known as Indochina in the early 1950s, and was a prisoner of war at Dien Bien Phu. The experience was, it can be inferred, a defining one for ...

May 7, 2024, marked the 70th anniversary of the battle of Dien Bien Phu, when Vietnamese troops defeated the French colonial army, ending almost a century of French colonial rule. A commemoration ...

Seven decades after the communist victory, memories have dimmed and the two nations have built a friendship atop the positive legacies of French rule. On May 7, Vietnam jubilantly celebrated the 70th ...

The War divided America and two American diplomats. Here, a Fench soldier bandages a wounded Vietnamese comrade after a skirmish to reopen a link between besieged Dien Bien Phu, Indochina, as it was ...