Biden administration and other officials are worried about a replay of the infamous Vietnam War finale on the roof of the Saigon embassy as they move to evacuate American diplomats from Afghanistan, ...

You've probably seen pictures of the mob which stormed the American Embassy in Saigon desperate to find a way out in the final hours of the Vietnam War. But maybe you haven't heard the radio ...

The Vietnam War came to an end on April 30, 1975, when North Vietnamese forces captured Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam. The fall of the city marked the end of the South Vietnamese government and ...

OCEANSIDEOCEANSIDE — The images this week of people desperate to flee their country as a prolonged U.S. military occupation comes to an ignominious end looked familiar to retired Master Gunnery Sgt.

Hubert Van Es' photograph capturing the 1975 fall of Saigon became one of the most enduring images from the Vietnam War. (Mike Clarke/AFP via Getty Images) Editor’s note: April 30, 2025, marks the ...

In April 1975, the Vietnam War came to a turbulent close as North Vietnamese forces entered Saigon. April 30 of this year marks the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War in Ho Chi Minh City, ...

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A previous version of the caption accompanying the 1975 photo from Saigon incorrectly identified the building as the U.S. Embassy. The helicopter was hovering over another building a half-mile from ...

South Vietnamese civilians try to scale the wall of the U.S. Embassy trying to reach evacuation helicopters as the last Americans departed from Vietnam in Saigon on April 29, 1975. (AP) “Some ...

NPR's Tom Gjelten reports on some of the problems that might emerge when a United States Embassy is established in Iraq after the country regains sovereignty. One problem: how to coordinate with the ...