Horrific things happened fifty-one years ago in Mỹ Lai Village. During the war, many villagers were killed. Helicopters and soldiers brought gunfire. People fled and hid while others were not lucky enough to get away.

Two children on a trail between rice fields that were photographed by US Army photographer Ronald L Haeberle were later identified as survivors of the massacre on March 16, 1968, when 504 unarmed villagers were killed by soldiers of Charlie Company.

40 years ago, on January 7, 1979, the Vietnamese People’s Army in co-ordination with the Kampuchean United Front for National Salvation, deposed Pol Pot, putting an end to the brutal Khmer Rouge regime, liberating Cambodia’s capital city Phnom Penh.

Vietnam News Agency speaks to General and former defence minister Phạm Văn Trà, who served in the battle at the time, on how it was a war where “justice triumphs over brutality”.

Germany will on Friday inaugurate a memorial at the long-forgotten site of a World War II Nazi concentration camp where forced labourers built an aircraft factory deep inside a Bavarian forest.

Several items suspected to be belongings of dead soldiers of the Liberation Army were uncovered on Thursday, following days of excavation in an open field west of the busy Tân Sơn Nhất Airport.

On July 12, families of fallen soldiers from 23 provinces across Việt Nam arrived in Đồng Nai Martyr Cemetery in the southern province to attend a memorial service and reburial for 72 martyrs who died during the battle at Biên Hoà Airbase on January 31, 1968 during the Tết Offensive.

A mass grave containing remains of some 150 Vietnamese martyrs in the American War was discovered on Thursday in the southern province of Đồng Nai.

Two foreign UN contractors who were kidnapped in DR Congo have been found dead, one of them decapitated, the government said on Tuesday, as spiralling violence in the vast country sparked international condemnation.

Thousands of Indonesians prayed for their loved ones at mass graves and mosques Monday to mark a tsunami which devastated Aceh province 12 years ago today, one of the worst natural disasters in human history.

Iraqi Kurdish forces have seized the town of Bashiqa near Mosul from the Islamic State group, an official has said, as US-backed militia forces advance on the jihadists' Syrian stronghold Raqa.